Here is a bull reverse that came yesterday: [ATTACH] SOLI CONS AVG, XI in exergue 20-18 mm. 2.37 grams. RIC 285, page 156. Cunetio 1404 (19 pieces...
I just renewed my "supporter" status at CoinTalk. This site is great and provides a wonderful service so I think it is worth supporting. It costs...
It is a surely cast fake. I agree with Doug and others that the owl is also doubtful.
Here is an electrum piece of Theodore I (acclaimed 1205, crowned 1208-1221) of the Empire of Nicaea which was founded as a Byzantine alternative...
I read ancient history and Amazon sent me a list of books they want to sell me including biographies of the Roman emperors Constantius II,...
@FitzNigel, that was a remarkable writeup. I remark upon it. Thank you.
That's horrible! How can you stand it? As a friend, I offer to help you dispose of it into a lesser collection. PM me for my address. ;)
This one has some damage. The rim beading is broken off from 2:00 to about 6:30 on the obverse. It was in the very first NFA sale, NFA I,...
I just added a number of interesting barbarous radiates to my site: http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/coinlist.html They were acquired in London...
I just read the article of @Gavin Richardson (link above) about Apulieus's Golden Ass (aka Metamorphoses) and Atargatis, the goddess whose image...
Long ago I wrote a web page on the portrait styles on denarii of Maximinus I, Thrax (AD 235-238)....
The Goddess of Syria, Dea Syria, had a lion as a companion, much like the Carthaginian goddess posted by @Ajax: [ATTACH] 28 mm. 14.09 grams....
Doug showed one of the most famous zoo-series lions--the one minted for the saecular games of the 1000th anniversary of Rome in 248 AD under...
Is is the plate coin in Hahn's Money of the Incipient Byzantine Empire (MIBE), volume I, second (English) edition for Justin I, 61a. The first...
Here is a lion from Alexandria, Egypt: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 23-22 mm. 9.54 grams. 12:00. bronze diobol. Marcus Aurelius with full beard, right, LIS...
I won some coins in the Jan. 8 Naumann auction and was informed today that the Bundesdenkmalamt finally approved the coins for export and they...
When I print a flip in Word, which is not often, I prefer side-by-side, rather than the orientation used by GR above. Two regions that fit 2x2's...
Yesterday I was looking through and enjoying old Sternberg catalogs (a Zurich firm from 1973 to 2000) and stumbled across this coin of mine (which...
Here is one from SNG von Aulock, volume 2, plate 99, #3100. [ATTACH] Julia Paula, wife of Elagabalus (who reigned 218-222) City of Saitta in...
I have Sear, Roman Coins and their Values, Volume II, Hadrian 3677, an as, on pages 166-7. [ATTACH] I got it from a friend who bought it from...
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