I am not that much interested in coinage of the late Roman Empire, but the siliquae of that period are pretty attractive coins and some of the...
Do you know if this book is on line?
I would not buy an ancient coin based on some third party telling me that the coin in question is absolutely guaranteed as ancient. There are so...
I like this coin. I think I have to get one. The SR could stand for some variation of your suggestion, Sestertius Romanus, or alternatively...
Good point on the infrequency of provincial coinage found today in what was the Latin speaking half of the Empire.
I was going over my collection recently and noticed something I had not thought of earlier. What I noticed was that if one pairs Roman Provincial...
Why would there be a "banker's mark" hole in a brass coin?
It may have been a coin struck with rusty dies. I have seen surfaces like this on gold staters issued at the time of Mithradates VI from the...
How does it react to a magnet? Whatever the metal, I love the signet design.
Whatever a collector thinks of these well worn denarii, rest assured the Ancient agrarian recipient of a few of these coins was very happy with...
No, I have no other texts on this subject other than the one cited by the OP.
Excellent leg work, Marsyas Mike. if you permit me, I'd translate those lines as something like, " so that the understanding of the coinage was so...
Thanks for the article. It would help if the article had cited the words of Cicero in the original Latin. Whatever the verb is, a translation of...
Of course you did not find it. That's a sestertius. Weigh it.
I don't see the rims as identical.
Some numismatists think that the silver siliqua's value in the marketplace was so variable at that time that it was treated as bullion. Its value...
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Very nice looking coins. As a university student I had a Ukrainian professor. I'll bet he would have loved seeing this coin.
Do you, or anybody reading this, know if there is any part of the Ukraine that issued coins in Ancient times, perhaps a Greek colony or a Roman...
Looks to me that this coin is so Septimius that it has his DNA on it.
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