This one's tricky. There are no mint or field marks whatsoever. Pax holds an olive branch and a cornucopiae. I can't find it in RIC or Sear. The...
Kevin in quality control was working at NCGS, apparently, when this one was slabbed. [ATTACH] Diocletian? [MEDIA] I don't like slabs and I...
[ATTACH] Gaius Egnatuleius, c.f. 97 BC. Roman Republican AR quinarius, 1.68 g, 14.6 mm, 11 h. Rome, 97 BC. Obv: C·EGNATVLEI·C·F·Q, Laureate head...
Browsing through Carson's Principal Coins of the Romans, Volume II: The Principate 31BC - AD 296, I came across this interesting bit of...
This is to complement @Shrews1994 's lion thread! [IMG] Gallienus, 253-268 AD. Roman Æ Antoninianus, 2.63 g, 20.8 mm, 5 h. Rome Mint, 10th...
Post your coins of the Bosporan Kingdom or anything you feel is relevant! Tiberius Julius Mithridates Philogermanicus Philopatris, sometimes...
This copper as of Faustina II bears her earliest obverse legend, FAVSTINAE AVG PII AVG FIL (for Faustina Augusta, daughter of Pius Augustus), and...
I hope that some of you who are more experienced with coins of the tetrarchy can help me out on this one. I'm pretty sure that there's too much...
During the reign of Gallienus, the Rome mint introduced a system of putting officina marks on coins. This may have been for purposes of quality...
IVNO CONSERVATRIX - Juno, the protectress or preserver, is the counterpart to the role of her husband as IOVI CONSERVATORI. She is typically...
The authors of RIC vi, as well as Cohen, distinguish between reverse types depicting Genius wearing a modius and towered, although they admit it's...
Want to found an Eternal City on this anniversary date? First, find a wolf to suckle you. [ATTACH] Post your Romulus and Remus coins! [IMG]...
The sculptor who created the obverse of the Sacajawea dollar and the Vietnam Women's Memorial died earlier this week. She was 80 years old....
This looks interesting. Has anybody read it? [ATTACH]
I have had this coin for several years, which was part of a large uncleaned lot, but I never got around to photographing it or posting it here at...
I decided to start this thread because elsewhere, in this thread about coins from Hadrianopolis, @Limes asks "Makes me wonder, did every emperor...
Hadrianopolis (Ἁδριανούπολις in Greek; modern Edirne, Turkey) was re-founded by Hadrian (Duh!) at the site of a Thracian city once known as...
The Λεον Νεμειος (Nemean Lion) was an enormous lion who was the offspring of Orthros, a two-headed, serpent-tailed dog, and Chimera, a...
Pelinna (Πέλιννα), also known as Pelinnaeum (Greek: Πελινναῖον), was a polis located in the district of Histiaeotis in central Thessaly, near the...
I have owned this coin for some years, but only rephotographed it recently and I decided to research its background more thoroughly. Please post...
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