I'm trying to work this out and am running into problems with the attribution (not surprising since I'm not fluent with LRBs). Using Tesorillo's...
unworldly monoglot here :sorry:
Excellent! Thanks, Jasper... and yay it includes information about wappenmünzen! Very interesting attempt at correlating the iconographic types...
That sounds likely, although when my brain is more awake I want to think about it more. (might be a day or two before my brain has recovered from...
Caracalla-- a person could specialize in his coins and never be bored, especially with his provincials! [IMG] LYDIA, Philadelphia. Caracalla. Æ...
Oh right... I keep forgetting to look through the Byzantines :oops: Basil I and Constantine VII [IMG] Basil I and Constantine VII, CE 867-876 AE...
Constantius I [ATTACH] EGYPT, Alexandria; Constantius I tetradrachm / Elpis; regnal year 1, Emmett 4185 Constantius II [IMG] Constantius II...
Constantine I [IMG] Constantine I, RIC VII Antioch 84, SMANTE, R4 (rarity estimates in RIC VII are outdated; I got a few of these in one small...
Nice stater, @Jay GT4! Bs and Cs today? Good because I'm blanking on Bs :sorry: A predecessor of the most famous Julius Caesar: [IMG] Roman...
I prefer mostly western pre-Byzantine but don't mind seeing the other stuff and occasionally some of those non-ancient coins get added to the wish...
Style-wise and condition-wise they seem roughly equal. It must be something about the legends or perhaps the way the date is rendered...
Ohhhh, maybe now I see it-- more or less? [ATTACH]
What a great backstory! I like the portraits on both of your coins. Art and style in Alexandrian mint seemed to improve a bit during Claudius...
[IMG] Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus, CE 1197-1203 AE half tetarteron, 14 x 17 mm, 1.1 gm Thessalonica mint Obv: Θ/ΓE left P/W to right; St....
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These almost anepigraphic denarii are lovely! I got one several years ago before even knowing much about Republican denarii. I just thought it...
Thanks! Goat biga: [IMG] Roman Republic fourrée mule denarius L. Antestius Gragulus, 136 BCE, and C. Renius, 138 BCE ancient forgery, 3.18...
By allow, do you mean all types of bigas? Because I have others :D. I'm short on straight horse bigas though.
This should be a fun pile-on thread :) EDITED, sort of: I didn't see that you specified horse biga :oops:. Hmm. Well hippocamps are sea horses...
I have a cartoonish Justin II of this type. [IMG] Justin II, CE 565-578 AE 12 nummi, 14 mm, 2.9 gm. Alexandria Obv: DN IVSTNVS PP AV, pearl...
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