Overstriking copper folles was very common, especially for the "anonymous classes". I don't think it was a matter of emperors' ego : the anonymous...
Quadrans (or quadrantes) are interesting coins. In the 1st and 2nd c. they were the smallest coins issued by the senatorial mint of Rome (the SC...
Alexander the Great wearing Herakles' lion skin is a familiar monetary type, approved by Alexander himself. I like his elephant skin too. I don't...
Looks like the tiniest black hole ever spotted (Compare with Sagittarius A*) [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Rome, AR denarius of Caius Cassius, 126 BC Obv.: helmeted head of Roma to right, in left field X and - monogram meaning 16 (one...
[ATTACH] I found this sestertius a few years ago at some flea market. It's true that left facing portraits of Antonine and Severian emperors are...
The reverse legend : ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ / ΕΝ ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΔΙ / ΙΕΡΑΣ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ
This one is not so "ugly"...
My opinion : you should post this in the World Coins section. This is Ancient Coins...
I like this thread. We all like to share gorgeous eye-catching coins worthy of museum displays. But what about the creepy dark legions of ugly...
Here are coins that have been actually hit by a bullet. They are said to have been in a soldier's pocket during the 1st World War, and have saved...
Nemausus, today Nîmes, was a Roman city. Nemausus was made by Augustus a Roman colony to settle veterans of the Actium war. This is why it minted...
yes of course, this quadrans must be cleaned
Another really ugly coin : This as of Nero, reverse Victory flying left, holding shield with inscription SPQR [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, Caracalla with Julia Domna 198-217 AD. AE Pentassarion, Quintillianus legatus consularis, 215 AD. Obv.:...
Fourrée, corroded and holed : the worst "tribute penny" I know. Why is it in my hands? I don't remember at all when and from where I got it, maybe...
[ATTACH] AE 19 mm, 3.05 g This is what I think I could decipher, but I am not sure at all... : Obv.: head of veiled and turreted Tyche to right...
Dig a hole in your garden and bury them...
[ATTACH] Shapur I (241-272) [ATTACH] Yazdagard I (399-420) [ATTACH] Khosrow I (531-579)
After the Roman annexation of the kingdom in 106, these selas (at least those of Rabbel II) were worth 1 Roman denarius in Arabia. Many were...
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