For this week's issue of Faustina Friday, I've chosen a rather workaday provincial of Anchialus in Thrace. These coins are undated, of course, but...
Several Roman provincial cities in Asia minor used the same obverse dies for their coins or their dies were so similar as to have been the product...
Perhaps I’m getting a little ahead of myself, and I know it’s not even December, but several other members have posted theirs and I am pretty sure...
I got an ad from the Franklin Mint across my Facebook page advertising these guitar picks: [ATTACH] And I said to myself, I don't need such a...
Laodicea ad Lycum was an ancient city about 75 miles (120 km) east of Ephesus, situated in the Roman Province of Phrygia Pacatiana on a high...
While browsing online for coins of Faustina II and her mother, I was struck by the bust type on this sestertius, for it depicted the empress in...
https://coinsweekly.com/online-conference-coins-from-roman-military-sites/...
The reign of Trebonianus Gallus was marked not only by nearly constant warfare against the Goths and Persians but also by the Cyprian plague,...
I saw this bizarrely-rendered coin at auction today and I had to buy it. It's very crude in its inscriptions, with upside down letters and...
My most recent acquisition. Post the most recent additions to your collection! [ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161. Roman orichalcum sestertius,...
This reverse type was issued by Antoninus Pius for his daughter, Faustina II, on coins bearing two different obverse inscriptions: FAVSTINA AVG...
It's Veteran's day in the USA, formerly known as Armistice Day, to commemorate the end of the "War to End All Wars." The holiday was instituted by...
Undoubtedly of interest to our Roman Republic and Carthage collectors:...
I found Barbara Levick's Faustina I and II: Imperial Women of the Golden Age in the Oxford Women in Antiquity series very informative and...
Poor Arcadius and his wife, Aelia Eudoxia. She died in childbirth at an unknown age -- probably in her late 20s -- and Arcadius died of "natural...
This one's a new arrival. We know from die-linkage studies of the corresponding aureii that these coins with the PIETAS reverse inscription and...
I'm pleased as punch to have been the successful bidder on this denarius from today's Naumann auction. Happily there was little competition. I,...
Several years ago I purchased this small provincial of Septimius Severus and have concluded it is very scarce. [ATTACH] Septimius Severus, AD...
This little provincial bronze is a recent acquisition. It was minted in Nacrasa, a former Seleucid stronghold in northern Lydia that had once been...
After more than a month making its way from London to the US, I received this little bronze of Apameia in Phrygia in the mail today. Coins of the...
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