I think that to begin a search for an answer to your questions, we'd have to ask for how long did these AEs from the 4th century circulate in...
Two deniers of Chartres -- a grand denier 21mmx1.17g of the first half of the 11th century anonymous series vs a denier 17mmx0.83g of 1300/1305...
RIC VI to X can and are useful for general purposes and are rather easy to use and comprehensive enough for the regular collector. Where it lacks...
I particularly like the airplane ears on the cat. My cats do that when I over-annoy them.
It's a coat of arms of a cat and some pretty upset fish
Some Castilian war money: [ATTACH] ALFONSO VIII "el de las Navas/el Noble" de IVREA (1158-1214) AR18mm, 0.7g, dinero vellon "bienpeinao" minted...
I also "collected" beer bottles during lockdown, then the wife made me throw them away. Thus making room for more... ahem... items.
Why are all the booze bottles empty tho.
One of my favorite these days Ae18x17mm 0.98g [ATTACH]
I remember, it was on the linguistic aspects of denarius and its passing to different languages and cultural areas to mean the same thing -- money.
I think we can answer some of those questions, at least partially and with caveats, if we follow the modern countries that had an episode of...
Vita Constantini is such a treasure trove of numismatic references.
A wonderful addition indeed. CONCORDIA MILITVM is not particularly rare for Tacitus but it does seem to be a specifically Siscia type and this...
Lots of them red radiates up for auction these days.
RIC VII Heraclea 79, R3 p. 551
Ca. 325-6 according to RIC VII p. 551
You can also see the lion on the shoulder now.
Yep you did. But I would also understand how a cherry-picker would have missed it and allow it to go unnoticed in a lot.
Thanks Ross, I actually got to the bottom of this also thanks to your site.
This one is very easy but I think it's pretty pretty [ATTACH] At 32mm it's also yuuugeeee
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