If you want someone that people have heard of on your coin, you might want to check out the Alexandrian tetradrachms of Nero (just look up "Nero...
[ATTACH] This was my first sestertius, and the great style and detail made it worth putting up with the damage.
I think it's from the Valentinian dynasty. How much of the writing can you make out on either side in person? It's pretty hard to make much out...
What's on the reverse is an alter with "Consecratio" written around it. "Consecratio" refers to the consecration of an emperor, which only...
The emperors depicted on the first coin is Constantius II, the next two are Contantine the Great, with the second of those being from the London...
Well ancient bronzes often have the issue of what's called bronze disease. Basically, the chlorides in the soil the coin was in mix with the...
Anyone at VCoins would be fine, and Forvm Ancint Coins and Bargain Bin Ancients are pretty nice as well. I recommend checking out VCoins first,...
I don't think the second one is Byzantine. I'm not entirely sure, since it's rather hard to make out, but it might be a Spanish cob.
Sadly, I agree as well. There's no question that those are fakes.
Yeah, the far left is definitely Illyrian, though I don't know enough about this particular type of coinage to identify it more specifically....
Another possibility is a 1st century AD Alexandrian tetradrachm. The silver content was a bit low (I think like 25% most of the time), but...
That's one of the reasons I like collecting ancients. Few slab them in the first place, and no one really cares about fingerprints on a coin that...
The Byzantine coin does indeed depict Jesus, and the A2 anonymous follis is thought to have been minted by Basil II sometime during the period of...
I'm pretty sure that you're right with what you figured out. Unfortunately, I don't know provincials of this era well enough to narrow it down...
That picture is of Severus Alexander, actually. If you can make out much of the writing on the obverse, you can probably identify the emperor....
Looks like a third century coin from Nicaea. The emperor looks younger, so I'm thinking that it's Severus Alexander or Gordian III. Compare it...
For what it's worth, I've never heard that book mentioned by any collectors of ancient coins, so it's neither a standard reference nor a...
I agree with both of them. For further detail, it's Roman, and the minting date would be sometime during the emperor's reign, so it was made at...
Looks like the bottom center is Vespasian, so we can push back the date to 79 at the latest, meaning one coin there could have exceeded a century...
Another good, reputable place to shop from is http://www.bargainbinancients.com/ . As for cleaning, it's probably best not to get coins that you...
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