This summer I've been hiking along Hadrian's Wall in North England, from Wallsend (East of Newcastle) to Bowness-on-Solway (that's West of...
[ATTACH]France, Béarn (Lordship). Anonymous AR Denier, in the name of Centulle, count of Bearn, Morlaàs mint, 1080-1250. Obv.: CENTVLLO COME,...
[ATTACH] DIVVS ANTONINVS, sestertius. Rev. DIVO PIO / SC, altar with door closed. Next : another emperor or empress consecratio issue
These drachms were surely not minted in Bostra: the Bostra mint started under Antoninus Pius and issued bronze civic coinage only. These "Arabia...
Nobody is playing that game any more? I just attempt to restart it [ATTACH] Maximian Herculius, follis, Rome mint Obv.: IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F...
[ATTACH] Already posted it, but this sestertius is the only Faustina I I have.
[ATTACH] On my modest antoninianus, they're looking in opposite directions.
Of course every word has multiple meanings according to context. I am convinced that associated with Augustus or an emperor's name, and on an...
[ATTACH] An indulgentia was forgiveness of a tax liability. There is an edict of Caracalla, dated 216, found in Banasa (today in Morocco),...
4th century CE : [ATTACH] Valens, AR siliqua, Trier Next up : another 4th c. CE silver coin
There have been many coins minted in Rome for circulation in Orient. Under Trajan, the debased silver "tridrachms" (actually low-standard...
[ATTACH] Antoninus Pius, Rome, denarius Obv.: ANTONINVS AVG. PIVS P.P., laureate bust right Rev.: TEMPLVM DIVI AVG. REST. / COS. IIII, front-view...
I just have this Claudius, a dupondius with Ceres : [ATTACH] and this Nero Drusus sestertius, with Claudius seated on a curule chair : [ATTACH]
I even have Romulus Augustulus' own signet ring : [ATTACH] But of course it is a late 18th or early 19th c. probably Italian forgery... :smuggrin:
[ATTACH] Aelia Flacilla (wife of Theodosius I), AE2 of Constantinople. Reverse: Victory writing ☧ on shield Next : a coin of one of her children
[ATTACH] Mesopotamia, Carrhae (Harran, Turkey), Severus alexander, AE 23 mm Obv.: [... AΛEΞ]ANΔP[OC...] , laureate and draped bust left, holding...
[ATTACH] Arcadius, AE3, Antioch Next : an earlier emperor carrying spear and shield
Why do you think they are imitations? They look very much like genuine Attic owls of the early 4th c. BC.
Beautiful barbarous imitation. The die engraver was illiterate and could not read Latin...
I love this mixture of Greek and Latin. The legend is Greek, but phonetically written in Latin letters, except for the θ which is a Greek...
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