My own thought was that as later silver coins were increasingly debased, those of the Severans were pulled from circulation and saved and...
Yes on that sestertius of Septimius. I have found that while the silver of the early Severans is fairly easy to find in good condition, the brass...
No Felicitas for little brother. Atrocitas would be his lot.
One of the interests of students of ancient coins is to research and write about the images on them especially of that periods' most famous...
Don't be too hard on you? Hardly, as your visual rendition of the debasement of Roman silver, very graphic (in the literal sense) will stick...
What I can't fathom is why anyone would accept a coin in commerce that has virtually no intrinsic value and does not look like it came from a...
I will probably mangle Kevin Butcher's work trying to do that but I believe it has to do with a natural process whereby copper is leached out of...
I think you will find that most metallurgist believe that the fineness of the silver issues of Caracalla was closer to a bit under 50% fine...
I, too, had the opportunity decades ago to visit Rome when the sites were not nearly as secured as they are today. I found out that nobody was on...
Yes, and we collectors are glad that he did. Those big, and they are big, brass sesterces and dupondii are among the most attractive and...
I don't think there is any question that he debased the currency in order to make more of it. What I think surprising is that there does not seem...
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