actually the Romans looked at it as a recipe. Place 1 part silver in 20 parts copper and mix together. That makes 1/21 silver or 4.7% which is...
I wanted this type for quite a while before this one came up in a 2020 FSR sale making it one of my last coins before the Covid shutdown. I was...
Thanks for the post! The reason many of us hang around here is that we learn things we did not know. More complete copies that show his name on...
Does it bother none of our experts that the above two quoted posts conflict? I suppose this is a problem with coins 'not in great condition' but...
The other Indulgentia that comes to mind is when Julia Domna was forgiving Caracalla for murdering Geta. INDVLG FECVNDAE - In this case we might...
Great! If you don't find it worth $4.86, I'll buy it from you --- as long as you also mail it to me with free shipping. I would not be surprised...
Just to be different here I'll show a Juno reverse also distinct from using the obverse with AVGVSTA spelled out. Oops, Mat pushed his button...
This is true and it is strange how some of these coins retain what you need to ID with very little detail and others are simply not cooperative....
This might be a good place to mention (again) how much I like the book Collecting Greek Coins by John Anthony (a different John Anthony, not...
None of these strike me as obviously genuine. I might be wrong on some (#9, the Claudius II tetradrachm from Alexandria in particular could fool...
The symbols are just the officina number repeated in the local language. If you look hard enough you will find a rare example where the Siscian...
Relatively recently (30 years ago or so?) it was discovered that some of the common Pertinax denarii were struck in the mint at Alexandria....
Yes, but, unfortunately it is possible to set up shop as a coin dealer and make a living selling things you don't understand to a group that calls...
Minority opinion: In general, I dislike historical fiction as a genre usually because they can't stop with filling in the blanks where history...
Cleaning this would seem a big mistake. The coin has serious pitting which will not improve. Red does not usually clean well but I like the...
My A1 has signs of overstriking but not easily identifiable. [ATTACH]
...or BAD? There are few things that are ALWAYS true but one is that it is a mistake to expect any one answer to apply ALWAYS. When I was young,...
We should note that we have also come down on people (usually new posters) who post one thread asking ID's of a dozen coins all in that one post....
Several cities in the first half of the third century issued provincial bronzes showing husband/wife or other pairings. My most unusual is this...
I agree that the oddities we see from this period are due to the speed they were forced to make these coins. When it comes to odd Victorinus /...
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