Most brockages have the incuse image quite clear. Because it is incuse it is not very subject to wear, as opposed to the regular obverse sin...
@panzerman , Sear, Dumbarton Oaks, Hahn, and almost everyone else numbers him Constans II, not III. I see you explained your numbering but Sear...
Here is a tenth anniversary tetradrachm of Gallienus: [ATTACH] 24 mm. 11.28 grams. ΔEKA/ETHPI/CKY/PIOY Dekaeteris Kyriou Decennalia of the lord...
I added a number of ancient coins to my site: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html including a couple of Constantine AEs (including a MARTI PATRI...
Can you read the reverse legend? It belongs to Jupiter = IOVI and follows with CONS-ERVATORI AVGG A search on vcoins or elsewhere will limit the...
Here are a couple I bought in 1988 from a North London dealer who had a hoard: [ATTACH] Emperor and two captives. Chi-rho on banner. •SMKA RIC...
#6, the Gordian III, has excellent nice style and a strong strike in good metal from an unworn obverse die and not-much-worn reverse die. That...
I wrote an educational web page on the quinarius denomination http://augustuscoins.com/ed/quinarius/ and announced it on CoinTalk in March:...
My best late Roman AE from this year is better than his best late Roman AE from this year! :happy: [He didn't buy any.] (You just have to look at...
It does not look "applied" to me. Anyway, I would not remove it. The coin is so worn few details remain and the highlighting helps.
In May I announced an educational site on "year 5" coins of Severus Alexander (222-235) at Alexandria, Egypt which are interesting for being...
I disagree. I have the Stannard article and it says "The mean weight of the gouged pieces in appendix 1 is 3.86 grams with a standard deviation of...
The gouges were supposed to lower the weight of overweight coins, that is, coins noticeably over the usual full-weight of about 3.95 grams. So,...
The "increase of $1 trillion" we are reading about is not the increase in the national debt over a decade, it is the increase more than it would...
Shaggy! [ATTACH] Constantine IV, 641-668 24-22 mm. Sear Byzantine 1207, "SCL" for a mint in Sicily (Syracuse).
A fake. Not even close to genuine. The metal is not right.
There are quite a few CT members with excellent collections of FEL TEMP REPARATIO types. Some collect "soldier spearing fallen horseman" or "hut",...
I searched vcoins for ancient coins offered above $100,000 and found two, including the OP aureus. The other expensive coin is so ugly I'd bet...
If you are compelled to try to complete sets, you can decide to define "set" differently. We see collectors on this list with one from each mint...
@Parthicus , your #1 is also my #1 from that list. With your username, the top has to be Parthian and facing busts are special. Very nice!
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