We often learn something from Doug. I learned I have the common reverse variety with Dea Caelestis holding thunderbolt. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I...
The standard explanation has been to mimic test cuts to demonstrate the coin was not a fourree. Of course, we know that there are serrate cores,...
Take a look at this and see if you know what is on the other side: [ATTACH] Well, you guessed it. It is a nice Victory advancing left, foot...
I, too, read Bob L's article and found it very good and helpful. I own van Haaff, but Bob's good summary is worth reading. Like Bob, I find the...
Thanks, medoraman, for the OP story. My coin has Trajan facing right. Trajan (98-117 AD), AR 19, 3.33 grams. Struck c. 113-114 at Bostra, Arabia...
There are many, many thousands of low-grade coins out there. We need collectors like JA to find reason to collect them. I support any attempt to...
Nero, quadrans [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 15 mm. 2.24 grams. NERO CLAV-CAE AVG GER Helmet right on column, shield leans on right side, transverse spear...
Mine is much like the OP. 9-8 mm and 0.42 grams. [ATTACH] Greek Coins and Their Values 5909. BMC Phoenicia p. 228, Tyre 7. Klein 726.
I have a page on Byzantine coins: http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/Byzantine.html Today some coins from that page , often substantiallysold and...
Those who said they are fakes are correct. They might be museum replicas, sold in museum gift shops.
The rare "coins of the mines" have the size of quadrantes and are regarded as of the quadrans denomination: [ATTACH] METAL AVRELIA NIS 17 mm,...
The OP reverse is the Monty Python version, after the "flesh wounds."
Well, BMC does not have it, but RIC has it for both COS II and COS III. So, COS II is attested. Looking at mine, I see no evidence of a filled...
Roman emperors took vows (VOTA) promising to do something for the gods in exchange for something they wanted. The emperors wanted a long reign, of...
It is type 48 on this site: http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/
I have a page on ancient Greek coins: http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/Greek.html Today I went through it, removed the sold coins, and reduced...
I recently acquired the rest of a retired dealer's ancient-coin library and am offering good books from it it at far less than you can find them...
EDIT: DO 1, 2 and 3 SOLD inside two hours. Only Hendy remains. Shipping in the US only. $7 for one or more volumes, plus an additional $5 off a...
What a beautiful group! I love the color on the pentanummium. All of them are very pleasing. If anyone wonders about the stories of the...
My most sought after 'holes' are places I did not know existed, questions I have never considered and things I had never before known were there...
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