Hi All, I am active on the Ancients section of this board but know next to nothing about world coins. I’m hoping you can help me answer a...
DOMITIAN AE AS, VIRTVS REVERSE, STRUCK 90-91 A.D. PAID: $30. ASKING $25, firm; $4 to ship in the U.S. 26.8 mm.; 11.45 g.; 180° OBVERSE: IMP...
I would like to read an article, book, or book section on the culture of Roman die engravers. What I mean by that is how engraving was formalized...
[ATTACH] So I’ve been trying to identify this Constantius II Fallen Horseman Fel Temp coin, but the absence of a clear mintmark frustrates...
I think I’ve asked this question in passing in another thread, but I wanted to start a dedicated thread to this query: Is it possible to get all...
Currently Netflix is streaming a series entitled TROY: FALL OF A CITY. I regularly teach the Homeric epics, so I’m a hard man to please when it...
SOLD! Augustus, with Agrippa, AE dupondius, struck 10-14 A.D. PAID: $229. ASKING $220, firm. 27 mm. 13 g. 180° OBVERSE: IMP P P DIVI F...
So I’m reading a text on the biblical book of Revelation. On one of its pages I read this discussion that summarizes some assertions I’ve...
I won a coin in the most recent Triskeles auction— The auction conducted under the auspices of VCoins/VAuctions. The auction closed Monday but I...
You'd think that if someone was going to fake a Constantine SPES PUBLIC, the forger could at least get the Chi-Rho on the reverse right. That's...
Doug Smith has a well-known page on the complexities of grading ancient coins, using the Augustus-Agrippa COL NEM dupondius for examples. I'm...
[ATTACH] So this arrived today. A Nero silver tetradrachm of Antioch, Seleucis, & Pieria, purchased from Aegean Numismatics. (An excellent...
[ATTACH] So I've had this coin for a while and formerly had it catalogued as a Constantine I coin, making the fairly common mistake of believing...
Greetings from Kalamazoo, Michigan, home of the 53rd Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies. Since I am a lit guy, I typically do not...
This news story is only tangentially related to coins. But a Valentinian III solidus helps date the site of this sudden massacre. The CNN story...
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Just received my Numismatic Chronicle reprint of Sydenham's "The Coinage of Augustus" from the ever-gracious @jamesicus. Here's one interesting...
Here's a link to a descriptive and helpfully critical scholarly book review on coins and the NT. Coins as Cultural Texts in the World of the New...
This coin is currently on VCoins. When it first appeared, I assumed the price was a “placeholder.” But it’s been up for over 24 hours now. Is the...
I just received this coin that I bought on eBay a few weeks ago. I got it because of what appears to be a Latin cross control mark on the SOLI...
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