Yeah, that's a reproduction of a widow's mite.
Probably your best bet is to go to VCoins and start searching for things in whatever price range you want. If you're going really low (like under...
According to the 1988 edition of David R. Sear's Roman Coins and Their Values, Trajan's fifth consulship was in 103, and his sixth in 112, so I...
Anyone else think that they look like siliquae in the negative?
That looks pretty normal for a Tempo Tsuho to me, but I'm hardly an expert on these things.
It's a Byzantine miliaresion of some sort, probably this one. I can't tell you much about authenticity, as I don't know much about Byzantine...
The second is a Japanese Tempo Tsuho, which had the face value of 100 mon. Looks like these were manufactured from 1835-1870.
You only really find antoniniani and tetradrachms easily, and the cheapest seem to be among the former denomination. Probably the best way to...
The one on the left is an Alexandrian tetradrachm of Aurelian and Vabalathus. This was during a period where much of the eastern Roman Empire...
Can you provide diameters, preferably in millimeters? It would make it a bit easier to identify these. In any case, I think the second coin is a...
Alright, then it sounds like it's an as with Aequitas. It's probably a variant on RIC 77. The issue with TP is that Roman Imperial legends are...
Judging by the color of the metal, it looks like an as, though a diameter and weight (preferably in millimeters and grams) would help us confirm...
The first is a denarius of Trajan (reigned AD 98-117): Obverse: IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate head r., drapery on l. shoulder...
The first denarius I ever bought was one of those, though it's hardly in good shape: [ATTACH] Vespasian Reigned AD 69-79 Coin struck AD 74 AR...
I've found that a bunch of academic sources refer to all Roman grain as "corn," including Geoffrey Rickman's The Corn Supply of Ancient Rome. I...
That's probably a better choice, anyway. There's a decent chance that he's actually heard of this emperor, and Constantine is more historically...
Do keep in mind that there can be a lot of variation in what can be considered the same "type" of coin. All of the dies used were hand carved, so...
I agree with all of this. It might be helpful to add that aside from the top right coin (which I can't identify anything on) and the Gallienus...
The top middle one looks like it's already about as clean as it's going to get, assuming that there isn't a bunch of crud on the reverse, and it's...
With uncleaned Romans, you have at least 1600 years of dirt attached to a coin that most likely isn't going to be worth that much money at all....
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