I usually post on the Ancients threads as that is what I mostly collect. However I discovered a Shield Nickel way back in my older US coins that...
My kids and grandkids live out on the West Coast so I have gotten used to higher than back East costs and prices. I think maybe I'll take some of...
I agree. That coin is not in that bad shape. Much of the legend is legible (BASILEOS) and in time the surface will improve. The image on the...
Whoa, there. I spent 43 years in the classroom teaching history and my collection of coins and artifacts was an integral part of that teaching....
Thanks for the history story of very early Rome. Because Rome had not yet established its own system of coinage at that time we frequently don't...
Considering what the end of Vitellius was out on the streets of Rome, he might have welcomed whatever it was Vespasian had in mind for him.
I must admit to a certain perversity in arranging coins in my collection. For those historical figures who were mortal enemies in their lifetimes...
Et ego, "haec taberna est nunc clausa".
I am going to ask the same question I would have asked had I been a Roman shop keeper. Is this an as or a dupondius or a sestertius?
The term apparently even resonated in the Medieval Islamic world though there the dinar was a gold coin. Since the Roman aureus had as its mint...
Now that is interesting and about as much as any person would want to know about that alloy. My father was a metallurgist and if he were still...
One further thought. The actual word, "denarius" must actually have been in common usage everywhere from counting house to market place when we...
I have often wondered about the Roman coin we call a "dupondius". it was supposed to be from the metal we call brass, while they called it...
You might be able to date that Bloomington bank note to sometime around 1857-1861 as that is, I think, President James Buchanan. More likely 1857...
If what you mean is, "What did the people call the coins in the marketplace", we don't know. Bankers and money changers had to be precise with the...
Very attractive coin with not much wear. I wonder if it was lost and deposited in the remains of one of Rome's public lavatories. Vespasian would...
My recommendation is the two volume Greek Coins and Their Values by David Sear.
Well centered and struck. What more could someone ask for?
Clearly demonstrating the importance of a duodecimal system of calculating for the Romans.
Sure, I understand that from my dealings with ancients. What I really want to find out is purported age and origin. I like my coins to talk to me...
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