There must not have been very many obverse dies used for this coin -- which arrived this morning from France via Federal Express, four days after...
A little more than two years ago, I bought a Vitellius denarius that would probably be considered a "budget" example, given how much really nice...
Last week, I started a thread about Constantine I's wife Fausta, and the mystery of which two children (Constantine II & Constantius II, or...
I am well aware that as common as genuine examples of the Apollonia Pontika AR drachms from the 5th and 4th centuries BCE may be -- both the ones...
This new Roman Provincial coin arrived from Ken Dorney today. I really love the coloring -- a green and red patina. It's from about 251-260 AD,...
I thought I'd follow up on my "Four Sons of Constantine the Great" thread from a while ago (see...
In my recent "Snakes of the Roman Republic" thread, @Alegandron posted a cistophoric tetradrachm from Mysia in Pergamon from 85-76 BCE -- a period...
Now that I have one dupondius (the Augustus-Agrippa/crocodile "COL NEM" coin), I thought that I should have one sestertius as well. (And I should...
(If I wasn't going to risk calling a thread "Republican snakes," I certainly wasn't going to do the equivalent with boars and pigs, etc.!) I...
(My first instinct was to call this thread Republican Snakes, but I didn't want to be accused of being political.) I think we're all aware that...
I made the mistake in another thread not long ago of posting a photo of a Diadumenian coin from Antioch that I had ordered but that hadn't yet...
I came across this Roman Provincial coin of Trajan on VCoins the other day -- it's described as a Seleucis and Pieria, Beroia bronze AE, no...
I suppose I'm following in the footsteps of @lordmarcovan's recent thread. I didn't post there because although I had already ordered this coin,...
I am not an active collector of the bronzes of the Empire's first couple of hundred years -- I've never bought a sestertius, or a dupondius before...
Walked into a bar. Actually, they're all on a coin together. What a combination! As far as I know, the only Roman Republican coin with a figure...
I've posted this coin before, but I didn't ask at the time if anyone knows what the two different monograms on the reverse signify -- see the...
A while ago, in going through a box of old magazines, etc. that I've been transporting from residence to residence for a number of decades, I came...
I recently posted my coins of Constantine I in the "Death of Constantine the Great" thread. So I thought I'd start a new thread to post my one...
Despite my interest in Roman Republican coins, and the large number of them that depict the Dioscuri (especially early on), I had never bought one...
Much to my surprise, since I always assumed the animal on the reverse was a bull when I saw photos and descriptions of this coin type, and when I...
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