Here is an obscure coin type: [ATTACH] 18 mm (the firm I bought it from misdescribed it as 12 mm; I'm happy it was actually larger) and 1.54...
I have added some coins to my sale site http://augustuscoins.com/index.html since I last posted here. They include drachms in celebration of...
Spengler and Sayles wrote Turkoman Figural Bronze Coins, volumes 1 and 2, which covered the Artuqids and Zengids. Unfortunately, Spengler took ill...
Coin photographs on the web often do not give an impression of the size of the coin. If you recognize the coin as, say, a denarius, then you know...
Here is a coin of Justin II and Sophia (565-578) from Carthage: [ATTACH] 23-21 mm. 9.11 grams. (pretty thick) Denomination: half-follis =...
We just had a wonderful thread on Maximinus Thrax, the giant. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/maximinus-thrax.381866/ This coin of his son...
I am announcing my website on Byzantine coin legends: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/legends.html It is possible to collect Byzantine coins by...
I often buy coins for their historical connection. My wife prefers I buy high-grade good-looking coins. (She has better taste than I do.) She is...
Late Roman AE coins of the mid fourth century and later commonly have obverse legend which begins with the title "DN" for "Dominus Noster" ("Our...
Byzantine anonymous folles were issued from 970 to c. 1118. There have been many threads about them and this is one web site about them:...
There is a very attractive coin exhibition of Islamic coins at the art museum of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. For the duration of the...
Until 970 Byzantine emperors struck copper coins in their own names. Then, in AD 970 the pious emperor John I Tzimisces make a remarkable change...
Panticapaeum (also spelled with a "K" for "C" or "paion" for "paeum), in the north Black Sea region, stuck some very artistic coins in the 4th...
Today I got a coin in the mail that cost me under $20, including shipping. Constantine is the most common Roman emperor of all, so the low price...
The ANS just posted a video by Peter van Alfen on the coins Athens: [MEDIA] It is quite well done and he shows some outstanding coins. Here is...
I just added some Arabic/Islamic coins to my website of ancient coins for sale: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html They are on the "Byzantine"...
Basil I was Byzantine emperor from 867 to 886. He founded the "Macedonian Dynasty" which lasted almost 200 years, until 1056. Here is one of his...
Last month I posted a thread https://www.cointalk.com/threads/maximians-name.374016/ on the full name of Maximian (Roman emperor 286-305 and again...
A history professor wrote about a parallel between ancient Rome and now....
My site on late Roman AE http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ricix/index.html lists type sets for the emperors...
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