"ADVENTVS" means "arrival". The arrival of the emperor to Rome was a major event worthy of celebration and commemoration. [ATTACH] Septimius...
Serdica was a Roman [EDIT: Roman imperial] mint opened under Aurelian c. 271. Serdica is the name for the Roman city on the site of modern city of...
Diocletian's coin reform of c. 294 introduced new denominations including the so-called "post-reform radiate" also known as the "radiate...
Samanid coins. Multiple dirhams. The fabled Silk Road cities of Balkh, Samarkand, and Bukhara were large and prosperous cites that were centers...
Under Justinian (527-565) the city we know as Antioch changed its name to Theopolis (Theoupolis) "City of God." Obviously, mintmarked coins would...
For a long time I have maintained a site of links to other web sites on ancient coins: "Some Educational Websites about Ancient Coins"...
Beginning c. 294 the new follis (nummus) denomination was issued with the very common GENIO POPVLI ROMANI reverse design. I have a web page on...
Sasanian silver coins are broad and thin with, almost always, the head of the king right and a fire altar on the reverse. Here is the most common...
I am announcing a web page on the coins of Diocletian: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/tetrarchy/DiocletianCoins.html Diocletian, 284-305, had a...
The Second Tetrarchy began May 1, 305, when the Augusti Diocletian and Maximian retired, the Caesars Constantius and Galerius were elevated to...
Here is a long article on metal detecting and Treasure Trove in Scotland: https://www.popsci.com/science/scottish-treasure-found-metal-detector/...
Sadigh Gallery in NYC has long been accused of selling fake antiquities and ancient coins. A CT search on "Sadigh" brings up quite a few posts,...
I just got Diocletian (286-305) antoninianus (or "aurelianus") from the vcoins site of @Victor_Clark . It's a beauty, with Diocletian radiate...
Recently I was approached by a friend about trading a rare coin I have for a rare coin he has. I decided not to do it, but not because the dollar...
Now when we use Roman numerals we write 9 with "IX". That uses a subtraction principle that is not frequently used on ancient Roman coins. Romans...
Earlier this year I wrote a web page http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ConVII.html on the complicated reign of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII...
This cartoon has some truth to it (as it must, to be funny): [ATTACH] I'm sure that explains a lot about what coins I collect.
During the first and second centuries of the Roman imperial period the smallest denomination is usually the quadrans, four to an as, sixteen to...
I have an old web site on reverse types unique to a particular emperor: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/unique/unique.html It shows reverses which...
There was a coin reform in 348 which improved the quality of the AE coins. Several new types had legends "FEL TEMP REPARATIO" (Happy times are...
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