It's hard to tell for sure from just photos. What is the weight of the coin?
Add the weight and diameter and take coins from plastic holders
As Octavian might have put it, "a multitude of Caesarea's is not a good thing". Perhaps I should explain my pun. Reportedly when Octavian was...
26 mm and 3.5 grams
What makes the Ephesian denarii so desirable?
Interesting question. I had the experience once of having a coin from the Middle East. it was written in Kufic script, the writing of early Islam....
Thanks for that interesting link. Apparently never built for the masses..
Thanks for your reply.
Thanks. That's it. I wonder how I got it in the first place
If I remember correctly from other Roman ruins, those bricks were not actually rectangular in shape but something like a triangular pie shaped...
I recall seeing this off in the distance when I walked the Appian Way and had no idea what it was at the time. At the same time some Carabinieri...
I need some help on this one. Like dealers, I have a junk box I have tossed stuff into when I got a hold of something I didn't know what to do...
Thanks, I appreciate that information.
I don't collect South Asian coins but I picked these two up out a junk box of a shop a few years back whose owner didn't collect them either, so I...
Do I detect what looks like "reeding" on this coin from about 10'oclock>. I don't think that could be serrating marks and I know of no ancients...
Why melt them down? They were valued as bullion, specie and it was more convenient to have the silver in the form of a known coin rather than an...
Excellent explanation of several unusual uses of the dative case. I love the dative case, although ablatives are pretty nice too. Now, next week I...
Augustor(um) is, of course, the genitive plural of Augustus and presumably meaning, with adventus, the arrival of the emperors. Were there two or...
Sounds like a life being well lived.
I like that the coin is light in color. For me a coin that is too dark is an invisible coin.
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