I could hardly believe this when it was posted. Last Friday for the first time in along time I put up an item for auction with a low opening bid....
I have an educational site on VOTA coins: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/ I added this interesting sestertius of Antoninus Pius to the...
I agree with all the responders so far. After you have a thousand ancient coins, you can go for something really special. Until then, buy lots of...
I didn't vote because the option "sometimes" was not available. I have bought coins with "Make an offer" several times and failed to do so...
I recently bought Sear's Roman Coins and Their Values volume V. I have RIC, so I didn't need it but thought it would be good to complete the set....
@panzerman , you are right according to Sear, where it is Sear 1463 under "Anastasius II, Artemius" (713-715). (He does not list an "Anastasius...
That is a great coin with an interesting history. The XVI mark is still mysterious. If you want to know a bit more about X vs XVI look here:...
Almost all of mine are in the bank in boxes in flips except for some of the most-recent purchases. The few coins at home are in Abafil trays. For...
The soldier cannot be Maximinus. Maximinus was a later emperor from 235-238. There is no chance he would be on a coin from 30 years earlier.
Here is my site on the quadrans denomination: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/quadrans/ The quadrans denomination is scarce and usually without an...
It has been a long time since CT has had a thread on FEL TEMP REPARATIO "hut" types. This one came today: [ATTACH] 21 mm. SMKB for Cyzicus...
I bought the four De Witt catalogs shortly after they came out directly from Kunker, even though I don't collect medieval coins. I bought them...
The full name of Macrinus includes OPELLlVS and he took also the name SEVERVS which those letters abbreviate. It is Macrinus.
Some anonymous folles ["Class I"] have been attributed to the Byzantine emperor Nicephorus III (1078-1081). He has one other follis type that is...
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