This may not be the place for this post but I have quite a few variations on these dating back to when Pat and I were corresponding on them...
It is too late to go back but the 'Alexandrian bronze' Q posted is a billon tetradrachm which can tone to look quite bronze but that term is...
Those are both nice coins. It is a shame that your plans for the 2021 list have been foiled but now you will have to apply yourself even more...
In general, I believe anyone who believes he has the 'final' word on something rarely understood the question. Perhaps a goal would be to be...
Is that a die cud at the bottom of the neck or just a striking weakness? [IMG]
I agree that is a good one. May favorites of the family: Carus: [ATTACH] Numerian: [ATTACH] Carinus: [ATTACH]
I believe Verus asses are harder to find than sestertii. I have none. These are both sestertii. The first is the most important since it honors...
A slightly less graphic translation would be, "This note is legal tender for all debts public and private." This appears on US paper money today.
The part I find hard to understand is the small Constans coins are smaller than the AE2 Gallus coins suggesting that there was a second...
Writing a book is hard work. Editing is harder. Finding inconsistencies you will regret having missed when the critics find them..........
DonnaML has the best answer. Until any of us get to the point that we feel comfortable, and I mean really comfortable, with a series of coin, it...
Where in RIC did you read that the FH and SR were not sequential? The weights given certainly suggest they were not together.
These strike me as an interesting group of types I would enjoy and hope you will for years and years to come. It makes me look forward to what...
I recognize three kinds of coins: 1. Those I believe are fake 2. Those I believe are real 3. Those I do not know well enough to have an opinion...
You have received some good answers above which proves the value of Coin Talk. It was mentioned that and we might note that Cash specialists...
I found interest in the line " (64%) pieces are listed as being contemporary copies" which seems high to me but might reflect the situation in...
I am particularly attracted to #6 which poses the question of why there is a bare head on the Caesar but the legend ends with AVΓ.
In the 45 or so years since BMCRE V was published, the BM has added many coins to their holdings. In my specialty, the number is at least...
You are right. Daughter Emma married Aethelred II and Cnut. Sorry for the error.
....no, not THAT one,,,, the other Richard I. I am not a specialist in medieval coins or a student of the history beyond the end of the Western...
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