Alexandria was a special case with its closed economy. Most other cities stopped issuing Provincials years before the Diocletian reform stopped...
While we have been shown a nice variety of folles of the Tetrarchy, we might point out to those new to the series that care needs to be taken to...
I suspect what is causing the problem here is that many lists of mints are limited to the late Roman mints of the Tetrarchy and later which used a...
I consider it a matter of denomination. If a mint struck denarii, it was Imperial. It is possible one mint struck both and almost certain that...
Just one here. [ATTACH]
My only similar item is this Julia Domna AE23 of Odessa with Demeter and Persephone. [ATTACH]
Akragas AE quadrans with crab and shrimp reverse [ATTACH] Next: Still Sicily but with two creatures not from the sea nor air BTW: This was my...
There was an Imperial mint at Ephesis under Vespasian but most coins from there are Provincials. Most people pay more attention to the Late Roman...
Try putting something very small under the lower edge thus tipping the coin up just a little bit so more light bounces back to the camera....
I like the concept and see it as increasingly useful now that so many people seem to favor fully scrubbed ancients somehow fooling themselves into...
Good explanation with one minor correction. 'Augustus' was not a name. The man Octavian took the title 'the revered one' Augustus rather than...
You skipped two. Both are listed in the pack from 193 "Year of Five" but the Clodius Albinus as Augustus did not come until a couple years later...
I stopped collecting modern coins when I as close to FFIVN's age but before then I really wanted a hobo nickel. At that time there was a strong...
NOOOOOO! In fact it is a great injustice that September has only 30 days. This was caused by that great egomaniac Augustus that insisted his...
At the rate my eyesight is going south, I suggest you hurry up with your book if you expect to sell me one. I see things better now on enlarged...
Some were more superstitious than others. Septimius Severus married a girl because her horoscope predicted she would marry a king but years later...
For many of us, the recent hoard of high grade owls made our previous coins worth a fraction of the former price. Mine cost what would now bring...
We might say Aemilian was about as inconsequential 'emperor' as there was but since he did his thing near Rome ended up with more coins than most...
NGC is hard on scratches and I am surprised they did not put a word on the slab that would have scared off even more bidders and made it cheaper...
My example suffers from the dreaded 'flan disease' placing the best part of the legend off flan. [ATTACH] I'll miss your posts tomorrow. Your...
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