I love the Gallienus zoo series! Here are some hooved beasts: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thank you for your kind words. One of the things I want to show is that even the most common and inexpensive of coins have fascinating stories...
LOL!! I love the photobomb!
That is from the mint at Rome. The radiate head right and digamma in the exergue makes it RIC 207K, Gobl 730b, Sear 10235.
After the emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (more commonly known as Elagabalus) was assassinated by the praetorian guard, worship of the...
Your coin illustrates an interesting numismatic bit of trivia. Tacitus was the last emperor to issue provincial coinage outside of Alexandria,...
Most of what we know about Tacitus and Florian comes from the Historia Augusta, a collection of (bogus) biographies of Roman emperors of the...
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A couple of Gallienus antoniniani that were hard to photograph because of patina: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
This is very interesting and exactly the sort of thing I wondered about regarding the identities of these female deities. Coins are not just...
Here's a worn beauty, appreciated -- as yours -- for how difficult it is to acquire. I have seen it for sale only a few other times -- at a Rauch...
That's exactly what I think, too.
That's really cool! It's important to note that this is Claudia Antonia, AD 27-66, daughter of Claudius (by Aelia Paetina), the half-sister of...
Looking at an old thread, I notice @icerain has a coin that is an obverse die match to my Three Graces and Three Nymphs coins (but a different...
This DEO VOLKANO reverse was only issued by Valerian I and only at the Cologne mint: [ATTACH] Valerian I, AD 253-260. Roman AR antoninianus, 2.69...
Thanks! I put a lot of time into studying this coin.
Diocletian pre-reform: [ATTACH] Diocletian post-reform: [ATTACH]
And here's Minerva wearing her aegis: [ATTACH] Domitian, AD 81-96. Roman AR denarius, 3.43 g, 18 mm. Rome, AD 91. Obv: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG...
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