Researching this new acquisition for my numophylacium gave me flight of ideas, a symptom of mania or psychosis! :eek: But the only mania I have is...
I've had this coin since the early 70s, when I was a kid. I know it's one of the most common and least pricey of the series, but I would like your...
This interesting article, "The Phrygian Background of Kybele" by Birgitte Bøgh (Numen Vol. 54, No. 3 (2007), pp. 304-339), describes the way the...
Let's see your Eternal Rome coins! Coins of T-Bone, or anything you feel is relevant! Coins depicting the cult statue of Roma Aeterna in Rome's...
Gold and bronze coins bearing the reverse inscription IVNONI LVCINAE and depicting a female figure standing, holding an infant in her arm, with...
Trebonianus Gallus was the only emperor of the mid third century that did not become emperor as a result of civil war or regicide. Rather, his...
TGIFF!! Yes, it's Faustina Friday!! :joyful: This coin is a new addition to my Numophylacium Faustinae. It was likely part of the large issue...
These are a couple of semisses that have been part of the CT community for a while. These coins once belonged to @jb_depew and to @Theodosius. I...
Waiting for this one to arrive ... [ATTACH] Probus, AD 276-282. Roman billon antoninianus, 4.15 g, 22.05 mm, 6 h. Serdica, 4th officina, 4th...
Post your coins depicting someone wearing the stephane, comments, or anything you feel is relevant! Though often referred to in the numismatic...
This is a new arrival to my Numophylacium Faustinae. I purchased it because it depicts the empress wearing the stephane,* an example of which was...
Of course it's a repro ... [IMG] But this one of Marc Antony is real: [ATTACH] Antony and Octavia. AR cistophorus, 25.6 mm, 11.71 gm. Ephesus,...
We know that Faustina II died sometime during the winter of 175-176, at Halala, a small town in the Taurus Mountains of Cappadocia, where Marcus...
Sure, everyone likes it smooth ... [MEDIA] ... like the middle bronze versions of these coins ... [ATTACH] Faustina Senior, AD 138-140. Roman...
Let's see your coins of Faustina you consider to be of "fine style"! I have a handful of denarii in my collection whose portraits are quite...
Both of these are RIC 73, but the reverse legend is broken differently. Is there a specialist catalog or reference that assigns them different...
Today's Franklin's World depicts the moon goddess Diana Lucifera/Selene as being tired of yo-yo dieting (waxing and waning)! [ATTACH] Here's a...
Caveat emptor! I looked at this listing on V-Coins and thought to myself, "What a weird variety, where Ceres doesn't hold a short, transverse...
Following the death of his wife Faustina I, Antoninus Pius issued an astonishingly large series of posthumous issues in her name, dwarfing the...
The reverse type on this coin is the mirror image of a coin I posted for a previous edition of T-Bone Tuesday. That coin was part of the first...
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