A legionary denarius of Mark Antony is one of the many ancient coins I would love to have. But examples in really nice condition are too expensive...
Back in April of this year, I posted my first ancient gold coin, a solidus of Arcadius from Constantinople, with a provenance back to 1960. See...
I recently received a new denarius of Faustina II, with a reverse depicting her (or, more precisely, Fecunditas representing her) holding one...
I recently purchased, from a dealer in the UK whom I believe to be reputable, what purports to be an example of the Tiberius bronze As with the...
I've wanted a Roman Alexandrian coin depicting the serpent Agathodaemon for quite some time, and finally found one that I both like and decided I...
Thanks to all of you for your good wishes. I've been feeling better the last couple of days. I still have to write up the three new Roman...
I know that 2021 is only a bit less than half over, but there are several coins I've posted -- my Arcadius solidus, a few Roman Republican coins,...
Most of you are probably aware that Roman Provincial coins in the Western provinces (Hispania and Gaul), issued with Latin legends by local...
Another unresolved question, although there's certainly not as much disagreement about it (at least anymore) compared to No. 55. Hence, a shorter...
I would not be happy to learn about this if I lived in the EU or sold to people living in the EU. I hope this is not a case of comments being...
This one has too many illustrations for one post, so I'll have to carry it over to a second one. Roman Republic, M. Herennius, AR Denarius, Rome...
It's been more than a month since I've done one of these, and with new coins both arrived and expected, I'm starting to have a backlog of posts to...
Like everyone else, I've encountered many references to so-called limes denarii, but this is the first one I thought was interesting enough to...
Both of these arrived today, so I thought I'd post about them together, even though they're completely unrelated except in the sense, I suppose,...
Not my usual kind of lengthy write-up like the ones I do for Roman Republican coins. But still just as lengthy, somehow! A couple of weeks ago, I...
My first 50 Roman Republican coins were all denarii. But I've seen a lot of people post very appealing examples of the quinarius (half-denarius)...
An interesting (although non-scholarly) article that was published yesterday surveying the history of centaurs in Greek mythology and early Greek...
These were not entirely impulse purchases, unlike the two new Provincial coins I recently posted. In a recent thread, I mentioned that I had only...
I don't make a lot of impulse purchases. It's no exaggeration at all for me to say that I often look at 500-1,000 ancient coins before I see one...
Exactly a year ago (according to a previous version of the personal coin catalog I keep), I owned 16 Roman Republican denarii. I remember vaguely...
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