I always wanted one of these. There was a common practice in antiquity of a powerful ruler requiring subservient neighboring kings to send their...
We need a better photo of the Constantinopolis also. At first look I believed it was good but am having trouble with the style compared to the...
There are at least a million types of genuine ancient coins. It may be hard to believe but they outnumber the fakes. Your seller is trying to...
Sestertii (my poor example attached) have no crescent. Double sestertii and dupondii do but I do not own one. [ATTACH]
Nice coin
Was Magnus Maximus the first Christian emperor who executed a Christian for being the wrong flavor of Christian? I don't have that reference but...
Well, of course Parthia.com is a better resource than my pages. My pages are simply simplified and simplistic summaries on some subjects posted...
I share Martin's enjoyment of Probus which probably explains why I have three pages on his coins (unfortunately the largest dates to the period...
If you compare each to the images on the link Mat provided, you will find all five. As a hint, you will need to read the captions to separate the...
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I'd say by maybe 100 times? My experience suggests these three are above average specimens. Many are much worse. I have seen three or four that...
Crosses? How do you interpret these two? [ATTACH][ATTACH]
Septimius Severus [ATTACH] Septimius Severus 193-211 AD Him: Became emperor the old fashioned way - he killed people Ruled effectively for 18...
The countermark is Nero but the coin is Nero Claudius Drusus (a different person).
Leave some for me!
Photos will be expected. My next opportunity is a sale closing Tuesday. I hope I will get something to photograph.
I oppose any remakes of Roman historical fiction until they run out of original subjects based on about 100 other Roman stories worth the...
If there ever was a bunch that could be identified by portrait with no legends, the rulers of 68-69 lead the way.
The good news is that the most common gameplan by new ancient coin collectors is to get one coin from each Roman Emperor and one coin from each...
I believe it unlikely that such shine came out of the ground so that leaves pocket piece or buffing wheel. I do not know how to be certain.
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