In the course of researching this Roman provincial tetrassarion of Gordian III and Tranquillina from Mesembria, I noticed this particular die has...
This toned antoninianus of Herennius Etruscus as Caesar features Apollo seated, holding a branch and leaning on a lyre. This is a common motif for...
Post your examples of coins with interesting lettering or anything you feel is relevant. If you collect Roman provincial coins, you have...
My Labrador retriever has the attitude that every toy is her favorite. I'm the same way about my coins -- fickle as a black Lab. This one's my...
I am having a terrible time identifying the figure on the reverse of this pentassarion from Mesembria in Thrace! I've done a search at...
Not the highest-grade example of this scarce provincial but easy to attribute because it was issued in only a single year and with a very limited...
These pseudo-autonomous issues of Alexandria Troas are fun. They come with a variety of reverse designs and a whole slew of variations in legends...
In the course of photographing this one, I noticed something I hadn't before -- the reverse inscription is not COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, but...
A recent acquisition. Minted in the last year of Commodus' life, it has a mature portrait. Its reverse type depicts Libertas, the personification...
This Franklin's World comic almost certainly takes place in the mid third century! [ATTACH] Here's one of Florian, with a CONCORDIA MILITVM...
Shame the reverse die of this Tetricus I antoninianus is so worn. It would be quite a looker otherwise! Post your coins with dies in opposite...
"I don't get no respect. Three of my coins have never appeared at Coin Talk! And look at that Uberitas -- last time I saw a face like that it was...
A bargain purchase; this coin comes in umpteen varieties and attributing it was a bear! [ATTACH] Time of Severus Alexander, AD 231-235....
Here are a couple of coins produced by the Rome mint about a century apart, but they seem to reveal the sequence by which engravers produced dies....
Venus in her aspect as the divine ancestress of the Roman people was known as Venus Genetrix. Julius Caesar, being of the Gens Julia, claimed...
This 13th century ruler and his coinage are about a millennium out of synch with reality. Dude's titulature even calls him "CESAR AVG": [ATTACH]
This new acquisition came courtesy of @Bing . Its reverse features the Altar of Roma and Augustus in Lugdunum, which was dedicated on August 1, 10...
Even though this coin of Macrinus does not specifically carry the inscription, FIDES MILITVM, it's clear from her attributes that the figure on...
I have written in the past about dubious listings in RIC for Faustina I, Faustina II, Julia Soaemias and Julia Mamaea, in which RIC lists coins --...
Making papal medallions. [MEDIA]
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