[ATTACH] That's my Vitellius (a denarius), much like @Bing's specimen.
The emperor currently called "Elagabalus" is often considered one of the worst emperors Rome ever had, who allegedly devoted his reign to...
All these small glass bottles were perfume bottles. They were funerary offerings and deposited in tombs, which explains why they are still intact....
I don't think it's supposed to represent muscles. The Londinium die engraver probably imagined this genius as a charioteer (auriga). Late Roman...
There are many fragments of antiquities I have collected when I was young, much younger. Only fragments, of course. Pottery shards I myself picked...
[ATTACH] Nerva (96-98), sestertius, Rome Obv.: IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS II P P, laureate head right Rev.: FORTVNA AVGVST / S C, Fortuna...
All these obverses are very close to each other, but it's not a obverse die match for all these coins. For ex. #160 has the obv. legend CONSTИИT...
Do you have any idea about where this unofficial imitative mint was located? Any provenance? Do you know if any of these unofficial die-linked...
The curule chair is the symbol of high magistrates who have imperium. Divus Augustus is a god, not a magistrate, and like Jupiter he sits on a...
[ATTACH] Nero Drusus, sestertius, Rome AD 50-54. AE 36 mm, 27.15 g. I liked this coin because I didn't have any sestertius earlier than the...
Thanks, I didn't know these coins. The only explanation I see is because it's a coin minted in Emesa (Homs, Syria) where people didn't speak...
It's saturday 13.30 h in France, not far from Fontainebleau. After a late breakfast, my son who came yesterday to see us with his girlfriend has...
You would never find COS I on a Roman coin or inscription, it would make no sense. On your coin it's COS III PP, but a problem with the die...
There were no asses under Constantine, and this as is an as of Claudius.
These Constantine and Licinius Sapientia Principis coins are very interesting. The owl on an altar, with a helmet, a shield and a transverse spear...
This is a very worn coin : [ATTACH] Pisidia, Isinda (probably the modern village of Kişla, west of Antalya in Turkey), time of king Amyntas...
There were fourrée owls in the late 400s BC. Silver-plated bronze tetradrachms.
To be a reputable dealer on ebay, you just have to actually ship the stuff, whatever it may be. Nothing more.
Just imagine some jerk had been there before the archaeologists with his g*ddam metal detector... No coins, no clue...
Silver Roman coins weren't just dropped at random in the open fields. If one finds three Roman denarii in the same day, it means he was using his...
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