You have no idea how many times I have been offered these Venetian Grosso coins as Byzantine silver pieces. Yes, they share a similarity but...
The 25 to one I mentioned was not the gold-silver value ratio which was probably something like 11 or 12 to one but the ratio of the aureus to the...
I know that was true in the First Century BC as the triumvirs were constantly seizing land, often in Italy from peasant farmers to pay off their...
When a Roman legionary retired and his accounts squared away, he must have been entitled to a fair amount after 20-25 years of service. I wonder...
Thanks. For some reason I had thought that just being in possession of counterfeit US money was unlawful.
Would that not also apply to the Greek speaking East that did issue didrachmas and tetradrachmas in large numbers?
Somewhat off topic, but is it not unlawful to possess counterfeit US coinage?
A few days ago one of our members put up an image of a very early and rare Roman silver didrachma of the early to mid Third Century BC in...
Thanks. Actually, I had wondered if somebody just did not like Tyre. Maybe woke up in a back alley with purse gone, except for this one coin. Why...
Thanks. I wondered about that. Olympia makes sense but why the Heraklea. Did someone from Heraklea win the urn?
I don't known. Agon in Greek is the root of our agony of and is the word for contest but I don't know what that means in the context of this coin....
That weight is good for a denarius of that time period with some wear on it.
This brass coin of Julia Aquilia Severa is listed in some publications as a "scarce" coin. About the size of a US half dollar it weighs 12.5 grams...
Thanks. That was a great write up. Back in the 1980's I visited Greece and Turkey and spent much of my time searching for surviving traces of...
The thought occurred to me that that picking up a box or two of ammo might not be a bad idea but I can't do that in my state which has closed down...
What is the weight of the coin?
Do you happen to know if the modius on the head of the statue of Sarapis is an actual measure of a modius?
They considered the German king their de facto ruler (for the moment) but the Byzantine emperor as their de jure ruler (whenever he could reassert...
I would not pay more than $35 for this coin. For less than a hundred dollars you could get a silver denarius or antoninianus of a Third century...
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