I find it interesting if SS felt the need to avoid 'offence' at IMP VII as on this Rome mint VII (a mite crowded on the VII) [ATTACH] but by IMP...
I have not seen this reference. Does she show the overdate? I have seen two. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
30. For day thirty, I wanted to review another Legionary that is special to me but, as usual, I have trouble selecting one over another. Should I...
We should not consider it all that odd that a symbol might be used for a concept like 'year'. We do that regularly for money denominations...
I feel absolutely defective not having a coin from this die but I do love the way every reverse went far beyond the call of duty to insure every...
I wonder if the Adiabeni were less familiar Parthian vassals and enemies to people at Rome so the coin spelled out their name more completely....
29. Near the end of the 'Emesa' mint period came a series of denarii with dated reverse legends. TRPIII IMPV COSII One shows a trophy of arms...
I remember that one. FORTVNA REDVX with Mercury holding a purse shaped more like a bell than usual. I bought it in 2016 from the late Don Zauche...
I have never owned a denarius of Valerian. To the best of my knowledge, neither has anyone else. Link?
What is the evidence that there was such a period of interregnum?
This was a favorite stance for Apollo [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] and Hercules [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I had not heard that one but I recall fish scales being mentioned. The standard story from Aristophanes was the man who was taking his grain to...
While not the most lethal of all weapons, this Rhoemetalkes of Bosporos (131-153 AD) AE27, '48' has a nice assortment especially if you allow the...
The style of the portraits from this period IMP II and the later COS II coins does suggest a link between the mints. The tiny dots only on IMP II...
Many/most of us have coins we would be happy to pass along to new homes but the fact remains that most of you do not want what I will let go and I...
Keep looking. They are out there. My favorite is facing the wrong way on both sides but the legends are correct. [ATTACH]
...and there are several smaller dots among the stars in addition to the centration dot which I see hanging on to the right side of the top point...
28. Septimius Severus is said to have selected his wife Julia Domna because her horoscope said she would marry a king. This makes the crescent...
If we are going to mention it, we may as well show it. ROMA [ATTACH] POMA [ATTACH]
That is a great Gela. My similar hexas is from Syracuse but suffers from exfoliation making its weight (0.05g) less than it should be. [ATTACH]...
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