I wrote an educational web page on the quinarius denomination http://augustuscoins.com/ed/quinarius/ and announced it on CoinTalk in March:...
In May I announced an educational site on "year 5" coins of Severus Alexander (222-235) at Alexandria, Egypt which are interesting for being...
There are quite a few CT members with excellent collections of FEL TEMP REPARATIO types. Some collect "soldier spearing fallen horseman" or "hut",...
Aurelian usually comes as a radiate, either pre-reform or post reform. He also comes as a scarcer "denarius"--however almost always VICTORIA AVG....
Here is a coin that would be nice were it not for the flan flaw. [ATTACH] Constantius I, 293-305-306, struck c. 300-303 as Caesar. CONSTANTIVS NOB...
@dougsmit wrote me "It struck me we need a list indexing 'goto' online references sorted by emperor/period. CNG 204 is good for Carausius." He...
Alan Walker, of the firm Nomos, has written about ancient coins and archaeology in e-mails announcing upcoming sales:...
Here are some tiny Greek silver fractions: [ATTACH] 9-8 mm. 1.02 grams. Lion's head left/stellate pattern Miletos, Ionia, c.550-500 BC. [$24]...
We have already discussed the portraits of Elagabalus (218-22) with the "horn" unique to his portraits....
Here is a beautiful, large, Greek stater from Sikyon in the Peloponnessos, only 30 miles west of Corinth. [ATTACH] 26-25 mm. 11.93 grams. Chimera...
Here is a remarkable "Turkoman bronze": [ATTACH] Nasr al-Din Artuq Arslan, 597-637 AH, AD 1201-1239. Large. 29-28 mm. 11.15 grams. Turkish male...
This came yesterday. [ATTACH] It is 26 mm and 7.25 grams. A follis (M = 40, for 40-nummia) of Byzantine emperor Phocas (AD 602-610) minted at...
Under the Roman Republic there were yearly elections. Two types of denarii have voting scenes and this is one. It is far more explicit as to what...
I just added six coins of the Roman procurators of Judea onto this page: http://augustuscoins.com/Greek.html They are in Hendin's book on...
I have been working on a site about the quadrans denomination of Roman imperial coins. Here it is: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/quadrans/ Note...
Last night a friend wrote me that CNG had books in their next sale closing in two weeks and he was thinking of bidding on X and what did I think...
Here are a few ancients for sale. If you are interested, please compare prices elsewhere and you will find that for these types is these...
Here is a denarius of Aquilia Severa, the second wife of Elagabalus (218-22). It has a clear name and nice portrait with nice reverse detail. It...
I am a member of the ANS and today they sent me an e-mail advertising a publication that will be out in a month (that usually means two months):...
Here are several inexpensive ancient coins. [ATTACH] Trajan, 98-117. Dupondius. 25 mm. [$10] [ATTACH] Macrinus 217-218. (only 16 months) 26 mm....
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