Is that a counterstamp on the obverse at 7 o'clock?
A few weeks ago I posted a thread on how bad was Nero. After thinking a bit about that one, I decided it was only fair to post a thread on his...
If beauty be in the eye of the beholder then, I guess, we are all beholden to you for showing us your coin.
Geeze, when you said crusty I thought the usual encrusted and rough surfaces one sees commonly on Byzantine coins. Yours is a very nice coin with...
Yes, even on those huge sesterces he could not cram all that info onto them that he wanted without making the writing so small that one could not...
I wouldn't mind having that coin in my own collection.
I suspect that it had something to do with simply the amount of gold versus silver ore from the mines. What would be interesting to know is what...
His trouble may have come from violating what was a sumptuary law, rather than some kind of underhanded monetary maneuver. Rome had these kinds of...
You, me and Voltaire. Good company, all.
I am nor certain of this but I think there was something to the notion that if you were or became a Roman one of the things you did, really had to...
I recall watching a series on TV and watching as a young German professor told the audience about how she came to devote herself to becoming a...
Having spent seven years in a Catholic seminary I think I can say that in my observations the Church has historically always been more Roman...
And remember the quip of Voltaire (I think it was him) that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, Roman nor an empire.
I think I saw that program on channel 666 just last week.
I confess to this as well. While the late Empire, post Constantine the Great makes for great study, I stop active collecting circa Theodosius I....
I understand that Italy post WW I tried to take some of the disputed islands from the defeat of the Ottomans during the Great War. Are you sure,...
Some year ago I visited both Greece and turkey. I bought my self a tour book of Greece. It had pullout of the maps of the major Greek cities, a...
Excellent strike. Nice image and appearance.
Did anybody have any quinarii at this time? Well, since a quinarii was a coin of five asses, maybe a pentanummia of five nummia would suffice for...
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