I don't have any new acquisitions to post so I thought I'd quite literally choose a coin at random and write about what makes it special. I used a...
The coinage of Faustina gives us the earliest artistic representation of an imperial funeral pyre on Roman coinage.[1,2] The coins bearing this...
Common coin, uncommonly big schnozz! Let's see 'em! Can you beat this one? [ATTACH] Nerva, AD 96-98. Roman AR denarius, 3.21 g, 18.5 mm, 7 h....
Tell me, is there anything cooler than Cybele riding in a quadriga pulled by lions? I've wanted one of these for years and I was the successful...
Here's my coin: [ATTACH] Here is BMCRE6 154, p.128 from the British Museum collection: [ATTACH] Reverse die match? [ATTACH] Note the die...
None to show, but I came across this informative website by Kenneth Friedman and Richard Schaefer at Steve Brinkman's site detailing how these...
I'm convinced Mattingly and Seydenham erroneously carried over an error in Cohen when they described Antoninus Pius RIC 382b, a denarius of...
I took advantage of the morning sunshine to rephotograph this coin I photographed under artificial light several years and a couple of phones ago....
I am rolling my weak and aging eyes at this one. Gordian III and Faustina II, eh? Here's a properly attributed example from my collection:...
An auction win adds to this little mini-set of Venus types on the sestertii of Julia Mamaea. Her bronzes portraying Venus depict the goddess in...
A new one, courtesy of @John Anthony ! Post anything you feel is relevant! Comments welcome. [ATTACH] Caracalla, AD 198-217. Roman provincial Æ...
A new purchase from @John Anthony 's latest auction. It represents a Roman provincial city I had not yet had in my collection. Moreover, I was...
You can read about the Phillipe Gysen collection here. This Probus from my collection is a little more humble: [ATTACH] Probus, AD 276-282....
Just picked this one up at auction. Procopius had been lacking in my collection. Post your Procopius coins or anything you feel is relevant!...
I've had this one misattributed for years. That's what happens when you take the dealer's word for things and don't do the research yourself. I'm...
I'm in an antiquarian mood tonight and shall use the nomenclature of early numismatic works. :wacky: This type is rather common and only the...
I've long wanted one of these Roman provincials from Amphipolis with the Artemis Tauropolos reverse types and I had the opportunity to pick up one...
The history of the relationship between Rome and the wolf goes back to the very beginning of the new city. The myth of the she-wolf that suckled...
I have a few of these VRBS ROMA types of Constantine and was looking on Amazon to see if there has been a monograph written about them. I was...
A new acquisition. I can find AMNG II (Strack) 502 at acsearchinfo and CNG's archives listed also as Varbanov 297, but they have different breaks...
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