Happy Monday! Below is a collection of August As. Beginning around 15 B.C. these became the workhouse of the new empire. The reform here is the...
Happy Friday, I believe this to be RIC X 60,A from Constantinople. Do you agree? 16 mm, 2.50 g The draping looks different than Wildwinds, but...
Happy Friday (for a few minutes here in NY!) Augusta Treverorum, now modern Trier was a very important Roman city particular in the time of...
Monday is almost done here in New York. Great light today had me feeling like I cracked the matrix for taking pictures of partially silvered...
Almost Friday! Life has gotten extremely busy and combine that with our fiat equivalent of debasing the money supply it seems we have to work a...
Good day, evening or whatever time this post finds you in, I like collecting amongst other things, large follis from the Tetrarchy. Curious what...
[ATTACH] Happy Weekend, A friend of mine is reading Meditations and forwarded this quote. Encouraged me to share a thought and a recent coin...
First it was gas, then groceries now rampant inflation has hit the grading of ancient coins at auction houses (or did it?)! Ancient Rome had its...
Happy Friday everyone, we made it! Today the clouds aligned perfectly for me, and I was able to free Hercules from his plastic tomb: [ATTACH]...
Greetings, This is my top 10 list for 2021 - I tried to create a sample of what I collected. The list is in chronological order of when I believe...
Happy weekend everyone. Title says it all. I've been slowly expanding my Diocletian series and late Roman coins from the post-crisis period into...
It's a good day when one of these large bronze coins from Syria makes it's way into my hands. I'm not certain I have the reference correct - RPC...
Greetings, As the title says this thread below are my latest iteration of the Nerva-Antonine dynasty, or as I call them in my collection the...
Happy Friday! Victory / Victoria is a frequent representation on Roman coins. Nobody likes a good victory more than the Romans. I love these...
Happy Friday! I was tempted to title this "Cibum ad Sol" as this first series of coins feature Sol and has been a collection theme of mine. I've...
Happy Sunday everybody, I had a question about the Solidus with Theodosius I auctioned today at Leu. Lot 3010 if the below link doesn’t work....
...of the Tetrarchy It is of course impossible to complete an ancient coin collection. We all know that factoid. I did however complete (for...
Good morning everyone, I absolutely love large bronze coins. For complete disclosure, I also like silver, gold, all kinds of AE and even billon...
Happy Friday! The below denarius has really good surfaces, even if some of the legend got squished or clipped off the compact flan. This coin has...
Happy Friday! History sometimes is stranger than fiction: With the death of Constantius in 306 A.D. and the success of the war in Britain, many...
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