Fourees , or plated coins, were invented the day after coinage was. Why that was so, varied from forgeries from some back alley, to mint workers...
One very short bit of advice. Junk stays junk.
I would have paid more if I already did not have several of these coins in my collection. I don't know from circulation numbers but the date of...
I have always like Domitian's coinage. He actually made an attempt (partially successful) to increase the purity of the silver denarius and the...
I have had a number of these coins in my collection. That weight is about what you can expect from a circulated coin in that condition. The wear...
The author Procopius, who you mention, did nothing unusual about writing that almost everything Justinian did was done for a "bad motive". That is...
My local coin shop has a number of these. Your choice, one dollar.
Somewhere, years ago I picked up a pile of these colorful notes but never had that much interest in them. I used to give them out to my European...
And theology was very, very political in the late roman and Byzantine empire.
I would put no behavior beyond the ability of a Roman emperor, even one professing to be on his way to becoming a Christian convert.
I believe he received his sobriquet, Chrysostom, (Golden Mouth) from his fine speaking and preaching skills. That took courage as well as talent....
Thank you. I researched that myself this afternoon and found out that they are somewhat scarce and were not even recognized as Alexandrian issues...
A denarius in Latin minted in Alexandria in 192 AD? I had no idea the Romans had a mint in Alexandria minting anything other than the usual...
One bit of an admonition. The Venetian Grosso was so popular that it was copied by other powers, often times with so little alteration, that it...
On the first side is an image of an enthroned Christ with the letters IC XC, Byzantine Greek for Jesus Christ (Venice started off in the early...
Two stories from history about holed coins. On the first voyage of Columbus to the New World (or the Indies, as he saw it) to encourage the...
Is its weight listed in the auction ad?
I very much like these late sesterces. The value of the weight of brass may have been worth more than the low silver metallic content of the...
Knowing the weight (in grams) might be of some help. It may also be double struck or have been struck with rusty dies, partially blurring the text.
I still remember my first Ancient coin., a VF denarius of Nerva purchased at a department sore in downtown Philly for $10 in 1960. It looked nice...
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