Introduction: Numismatic terminology can be confusing, especially for those new to ancient coin collecting. Part of the difficulty stems from the...
As always, post anything you feel is relevant! Though Nero is credited with introducing the radiate crown -- representing the rays of the sun --...
For more than a decade following the death of their father, Constantine I, on May 22, 337, his two oldest sons, Constantine II and Constantius II,...
I showed this coin to my wife, who described its reverse as "the victorious Venus brandishing vacuum and duster"! Now I cannot see a shield set on...
This coin had been misidentified by the auction firm as being RIC 59 from the Rome mint. It is properly attributed as RIC 75, from what was...
This is an old postcard depicting some medals in the British Museum. I'm intrigued by the iconography on the medal on the left. It supposedly...
This new acquisition marks the third left-facing portrait of Faustina II I have acquired for my collection and the first denarius to feature such...
Mars was the Roman god of war, the son of Jupiter and Juno and the father of Romulus and Remus. He has many epithets in worship, literature, and...
Annona is the personification of Rome's grain supply; as such, she is similar to Abundantia, and when an inscription isn't specific, the two...
I haven't posted this one in a while and I rephotographed it today in natural sunlight, so I thought I'd show it off. This one came from the Henry...
Not rare. Not high-grade. Nice nonetheless and a good example of the final issue (Group VI) of Trajan. Trajan received the title of Parthicus...
Post any coins you deem relevant! Old hands probably know the answer to the question -- let's hold off and see if some of the newer collectors can...
I enjoy looking up Roman coins in antiquarian catalogs. Do they offer accurate information not found in the standard references, such as Sear,...
Over the past quarter century, I've been accumulating a variety of Julia Domna coins by mint and reverse type. This one is a new acquisition. I...
IVNONEM is accusative; it's unclear why it is used here but probably indicates the "motion towards" aspect of the accusative case: "toward Juno."...
I don't have a fancy camera set-up but my cell phone takes a decent photo. I needed to "upgrade" my Aurelian photos, so I re-took these in the...
Post comments, coins, or anything you feel is relevant! The clothing of the Roman matron remained remarkably constant, remaining essentially...
The traditional interpretation of one of the major works of Greek statuary, the so-called Apollo Sauroktonos, is that it depicts a young Apollo...
Not the highest-grade example of this scarce empress but I didn't have an example of any coin bearing a portrait of Trajan's niece and I had to...
In an introductory book about Roman coins by John Fox,[1] he notes the existence of a wedge-cutting tool and illustrates what one must have looked...
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