I'll preface this by saying I am really bad with Islamic coins, so I'm just giving my beginner experience until someone knowledgeable makes this...
AND it's an Adventus type, very cool coin! (Here's the ACSearch record of its Heritage appearance last year.) If we're counting the later AE ones...
Beautiful! This raises the very interesting topic of "Riverine" surface (occasionally called "Tiber patina," but I can't believe that many are...
Very nice! These Constantine IV's are interesting as the last Byzantine bronzes (and Solidi) to really attempt individualized, artistic...
Also, speaking of NFA coins c. 1990, here's a little secret I'll share, now that I've discovered it. David Sear pulled a considerable portion of...
Hard to choose just one Chi-Rho coin, since I collect Roman "captives & barbarians coins" and many of them show Chi-Rho standards (or crosses or...
In that case I would really have no concerns about fakery at all. As a general rule, though, being an affordable coin really doesn't offer much...
"Coins in movies" is an interesting topic I hadn't thought much about before... But I collect ancient coins with interesting "object biographies"...
If you're asking about authenticity, the coin itself looks probably ancient to me. (Always hard to know from photos & coin description, since good...
Not the person you asked, but... Found it! Oddly, with a different lot number, so it may have gone unsold & appeared in a 2nd sale. NFA Auction 28...
Yes that's definitely the name of the magistrate. I promise you, it's a coin of Nero and the name "Tiberius Claudius Kalligenes" is for the local...
I really like these bilingual coins, and the Ghaznivads are some of the coolest of all. This is a great example, I've actually been watching out...
Do you mean you think it might be a coin of someone other than "the" Nero? I don't think that's possible: The coin names him on the obverse...
Aha, here is something interesting I learned about Blaundus that's relevant to this coin type. About 10 miles to the southeast is a...
I had some trouble with your URL, but there's good information in it. Let's see if these work:...
Ah, this is a great coin! A great things about Roman Provincial coins is that there are so many mints (over 350?), even if you've heard of them...
I'm not altogether sure why, but it seems I made a point of accumulating Magnus Maximus & Flavius Victor campgates some years & decades ago (not...
Ah, good! A chance to photography & share this one for the first time. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Postumus Billon Antoninianus (21mm, 2.48g, 6h),...
That is really a beautiful set of trays. The "(mostly) matching toning" really makes it especially impressive. Reminds me very much of the...
To get things started again, I'll invoke the 48-hour rule (used to 24, but fewer players these days).... I don't think I have a Carausius, but I...
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