My goodness, there are a lot of hooved beasts in the "zoo" series of Gallienus! Almost all of these hooved animals have the DIANAE CONS AVG legend...
I put in a lowball bid on this poor thing at today's Lucernae auction and I was the only bidder. It doesn't exactly have 5/5 surfaces. Let's see...
TGIFF!!! Let's see your coins of Salus, Faustina Jr, or whatever you feel is relevant! Those with more than a passing interest in the coinage of...
Well, if I had money, I'd tell you what I'd do. I'd go downtown, buy a Mercury or two. Crazy 'bout a Mercury! Lord, I'm crazy 'bout a Mercury! I'm...
[IMG] You know what that means! TGIFF!! Today we're going to talk about obverse legends and why using them to date coins has its pitfalls. For...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Faustina I, AD 138-140. Roman Æ as, 8.23 g, 26.4 mm, 4 h. Rome, AD 150 or later. Obv: DIVA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped...
Earlier this month, Mike Markowitz wrote an article for Coin Week about weapons on ancient coins. The article is illustrated with some interesting...
The auction froze up on me and I can't seem to get back in to their website to participate in the live portion of the auction. Is anyone else...
Woo hoo! It's Friday! Faustina Friday, that is! [IMG] First of all, I want to give a huge thank you to @curtislclay who was so kind as to send...
A new arrival! I couldn't resist the old cabinet toning! You know how it is! [IMG] Let's see some toned silver!!! Post your toned treasures!...
Spes in Latin, in general, means "the expectation of something desired, hope."[1] Spes was an early Cretan goddess called Ἐλπίς (Elpis) in Greek....
In terms of reverse typology, the overarching theme on the coins of Faustina the Younger during the early 150s was that of marital harmony, the...
For the past several e-sales, Roma has been auctioning coins from the Antonio Carmona collection. According to Coins Weekly, he has been an active...
"The Roman Republican Die Project (RRDP) aims to provide URIs for each obverse and reverse die connected to Michael Crawford's Roman Republican...
Hey, everybody! It's ... [IMG] And you know what that means! It's Faustina Friday!! And this Friday, we're gonna get provincial. The city of...
From Leu's auction, which closed on 15 August. I paid for it the same day, too. I know that Leu had to get an export permit, which took a few...
Remember @Mat's "Your 2021 Collecting Goals" thread? How are y'all coming in pursuit of your goals? My goals vs. what happened: To continue to...
Inspired by @zadie's 12 Caesar thread, which was about Domitian, not the list compiled by Suetonius, I thought I'd post twelve coins (six per post...
TGIFF! And I got ... [IMG] Martin Beckmann's die-linkage study of the aurei of Faustina the Younger[1] has provided us with substantial clarity...
It's September! And I celebrate by playing some EW&F ... [MEDIA] And, because it's ZEPtember, I play some Zep each day ... [MEDIA] And I...
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