Jim, How did you and your sister manage to pick up German while living on a US army base? Maybe from your maid, and from German radio and TV...
Donna, Gordian's DIANA LVCIFERA type was struck in 240, however, so had nothing to do with his marriage to Tranquillina, which didn't take place...
Dattari 1-6580 are the coins in his collection that he published in his book of 1901. Numbers above 6580 are later additions to his collection....
A dupondius mistakenly struck on a copper flan for asses wouldn't be impossible, though an unusually light normal brass dupondius seems much more...
Despite the low weight, however, I think Nero struck that VICTORIA AVGVSTI type only on dupondii. His asses had a different Victory type: flying...
Doug, What do you mean by "that group" and "those 77 coins"?
Donna, Your additional illustrations make me too think that Strack is probably correct to see a situla below the snake in basket.
Round object below snake in basket: Strack p. 164 thinks it is a situla, Isis' normal two-part water container, hanging from her left wrist in the...
Possibly an As (red metal) rather than a dupondius (yellow metal)?
I assumed that the original was melted down, along with all of the other ancient gold coins in the French national collection after the deplorable...
@Valentinian Since your dupondius lacks PIVS in its obverse legend, shouldn't it be RIC 275c rather than 282?
The asses of Marcus Aurelius with legend IMP VIII FELICITATI AVG P P S - C COS III, commemorating the sea voyage of Marcus and Commodus from the...
Donna, There may have been a Forum thread proposing that interpretation of galley left versus galley right, but I don't find it. Wherever I read...
Both 1401 and 1404 have bust laureate left. The difference is in the drapery: 1401 shows fold of cloak on front shoulder and behind neck, like...
Most impressive: 446 plates in five volumes! Many thanks.
The two words basically mean the same thing, an incorrect coupling of types or dies. However, as Roman Collector pointed out on CT a month or two...
@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix Thanks for the link to the very interesting Mairat dissertation, vol. 1. Could you provide a link to vol. 2 also,...
Donna, I agree with the rev. die link you show above between your coin and CNG's, and think that both of them are without doubt ancient and...
The source Prieur cites for his 1533: M & M List 250, lot 95. Presumably illustrated in that M & M list, but unfortunately I can't locate the...
For your Decius tetradrachm set, will you also include his different obv. legends and bust types, and the different poses of the eagle on the...
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