Nice!! I can't wait to see them when they are cleaned up!
Yes, helpful site, indeed. What he calls "branch mint" RIC calls "Mediolanum," Sear calls "unknown mint," and CNG calls a "special emission" from...
Lovely! I'm a big fan of the Antonine Dynasty and its coinage.
Interesting write-up on the passage! Well-done! My latest Commodus: [ATTACH] Commodus, AD 177-192. Roman AR denarius, 3.42 g, 18 mm, 12 h....
Because it's only worth a few cents and nobody would bother faking it.
Real bronze coin of Constantine with a Two Victories reverse. VERY overcleaned and of little monetary value, though. Its only value is historical...
As is typical for anything written by Mattingly, RIC states rather unequivocally that Trebonianus Gallus struck coins for himself and his son...
It could very well be, but it doesn't have to be. That's Doug's point, I think, that we don't know for sure sometimes which deity was originally...
A fistful of EID MAR denarii issued by Brutus to commemorate the assassination of Julius Caesar. EID MAR means "Ides of March." Note the depiction...
Well, any coin, really. Cerberus is associated with the underworld in mythology and it's only natural that the associated god would be Pluto.
I think the presence of Cerberus on those coins indicates the deity depicted is Hades/Pluto.
Indeed. Egyptian archaeologists find him mentioned long before Ptolemy in artifacts from Rhacotis and Memphis and construed his name as a compound...
So everyone can see what you're talking about. You'll also notice that CONCORDIA is misspelled on this variant. [ATTACH] I have to wonder...
Here's an old catalog listing for your coins. This old catalog doesn't distinguish left-facing from right-facing busts, nor does it break them...
My latest Hadrian: [ATTACH] Hadrian, AD 117-138. Roman AR denarius, 3.16 g, 17.4 mm, 6 h. Rome, AD 121. Obv: IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG,...
Nice examples, everybody! I see there are several that don't adhere to Michaelis' classification scheme, such as those by @arizonarobin , @zumbly...
Here's my latest Asklepios: [ATTACH] Severus Alexander, AD 222-235. Roman Provincial Æ 27 mm, 8.78 g, 6 h. Marcianopolis, Moesia Inferior, Legate...
Adolf Michaelis* has classified the way Serapis has been depicted in a standing pose into the following groupings, using the evidence of...
That reverse type appears on three different denarii of this empress. The first, with the inscription IVLIA AVGVSTA (the OP example) and from the...
That's an obverse die-match, too. Here are a couple others from Tomis. Both are 4-1/2 assaria denominations, one with Δ < to indicate the...
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