I recently picked up this little 18 mm Roman Provincial bronze and it was attributed to Augustus, RPC 1656. I have found out, however, that a very...
I wonder if fellow members could help me ascertain if this coin is genuine. The main reasons for this are its weight, which is light at 7.0 grams....
Does anybody know of a Roman coin that actually has on it the word, "Flavian(us)"?
For those who collect and study the numismatic or financial history of the Roman Empire in its Third Century crisis, it can sometimes be...
I thought I would post a somewhat different game, or, perhaps challenge. As you know a triptych is a picture formed by three images. Below I have...
I usually post on the Ancients site as that is what I mostly collect,[ATTACH] [ATTACH] along with some medieval coinage. I just uncovered a...
I recently received a gift of what is described as a "Challenge Coin". I collect mostly ancients and so this gift is a bit of a challenge for me....
Most of us on this site are interested in ancient history as well as coins. As we read about the people who wind up on those coins it becomes...
I attended a local coin show today. No ancient specialist there but several dealers had a few modestly priced coins like this one. I normally...
I recently picked this up as a throw in by the other side in a trade. I think it is a well worn sestertius of Marcus Aurelius but my eyes not...
Most of us who have been collecting coins for a while know full well that we probably have had fake coins or currency in our collections. What to...
There have been several posts in the past about the use of a preservative micro-crystalline product that museums use to preserve metal objects,...
As all of us know the Roman Empire coinage underwent a great, some may say catastrophic, debasement in the mid to later part of the Third Century....
All of us have acquired coins, usually bronzes, that are so dark that they are difficult to view the details of the coin. I have recently acquired...
I need some help to nail down the mint that issued the Caracalla Syrian Tetradrachma below as well as the unusual wagon like control mark between...
I assume what I have here is a Corinthian stater, one actually from Corinth because of the qoppa letter beneath Pegasus, but perhaps it is from...
I recently rediscovered in my collection this double denarius (antoninianus) of Probus whose coins are pretty common. This one seems to be in...
As I was going through part of my collection today, admiring, wondering and reminiscing, I recalled something I either read or heard many decades...
I recently acquired a few coins I have questions about. The first is a Roman Republic Denarius, Sear 176, Syd 570A, weighing 3.96 grams. If I am...
Somewhere I read a while ago where a person had recommended olive oil as a way of cleaning and preserving very old coins, copper, bronze or...
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