Uncertain, Asia Minor 5th century BC AR hemitartemorion? 0.15g [ATTACH] Next: another coin with a triskles
[IMG] Of course this image includes a book that is special to me. John Ryan's Papal book was a poor seller because it covered such a narrow span...
Whitting is a favorite of mine, too, as is Bruck. Neither is a catalog of types but a book to help the reader understand the coins and appreciate...
I suspect what we see as dupondii of Postumus may be barbarous imitations of double sestertii. I am unaware of hoard evidence showing that they...
While they are way too modern to it my usual collecting habits, I do like the wire money. I only have common ones but there are many early ones...
I also learned a lot from my books and auction/sales catalogs but wonder what will happen to them now. Few people would take what I have for the...
Trajan Decius AR antoninianus IMP CAE TRA DEC AVG / PANNONIAE [ATTACH] Next: another Roman coin with especially short abbreviations of the...
My first computer was a Texas Instruments 99-4a. When TI dropped out of the computer business they gave free to the world their implementation of...
Piling on: Nerva [ATTACH] Trajan [ATTACH] Hadrian [ATTACH] Antoninus Pius [ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius [ATTACH] Commodus [ATTACH]...
While the coin is quite nice on its own, the fact that it drove you to such an in depth study is even better. I might add that this particular...
Some of the earliest coins of Trajan show his face rather more like that of Nerva than would be shown later. [ATTACH]
Brutus/Lentulus fourree denarius [ATTACH] Next: another fourree of the Imperatorial period
My only Venus is a low end version of the ambr0zie coin. [ATTACH] I have no early legend Venus but this is the PIETAS. [ATTACH]
I believe the most easily obtained Pharos is the tetradrachm of Commodus with a ship sailing by. As with the Isis coin, the light is reduced to...
While many dupondii do have radiate crowns, certainly not all do. Below are two dupondii of Nero. The first is laureate, Lugdunum mint and has no...
I am a big fan of the legionary series. LEG XXX VLP is a hard one to find any better than the gogoli coin. For that matter, I consider any full...
I enjoy the Sasanians in my collection but am rather weak when it comes to reading the date scripts. Coins of Khusro II are by far the most...
I believe that is one of the most famous Republican types. Many/most people now call the event 'abduction' rather than 'rape' since the Romans...
While I prefer the coins from earlier in his reign, since you asked for the 'African Emperor' I'll show the AFRICA reverse. [ATTACH]
I love punch cards.... well, actually, I love the fact they went away and allowed me to get a really cheap but heavy as a tank file cabinet with...
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