here's a link to “The Enna Hoard and the Silver Coinage of the Syracusan Democracy” by Andrew Burnett http://doi.org/10.5169/seals-174769
Coin pricing can be fairly subjective, but ultimately, coins are only worth what someone will pay for them.
but what is reasonable to you might be unreasonable to a dealer.
That's an error in RIC, the officina is always in the left field for this issue.
You should also put examples of the PAX coins that Carausius issued for Diocletian and Maximianus on your want list...notice that the reverse...
the F in the legend stands for felicibus (happy) Part of this mint mark is a cryptogram, and is Greek for eros (the squiggle), which in Latin is...
nevermind
It's an unofficial Constantine VLPP http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/barb2/
I don't use Ren wax very often, but I always baked uncleaned coins in the oven on low heat after any cleaning with water.
the adlocutio gesture has been suggested as being the source for the WWII German army salute. [ATTACH] this casual Constantius "heil" reminded...
here's a Constantine II with an open hand that sold last year on eBay [ATTACH]
Yes, a hand raised is certainly not peculiar to Constantine, but I find it interesting when you can actually see the gesture of the hand and make...
[ATTACH] This coin has an obverse and reverse that has figures with hands raised, but they are not waving. The Sol on reverse is so small the...
Your coin has an H in the left field of the reverse, but I can't make out the mintmark. R✶T is RIC VI Rome 202a and rated as common. RBT is RIC...
Maybe overpriced, it's all opinion. For you to compare the price you paid for your coin versus this one for sale does not have much bearing if...
Actually I was completely wrong in my initial thoughts on that topic. If I had bothered to look in some references, I would have seen examples --...
Here is an altered coin of Decentius from Lyon. [ATTACH] Not surprisingly, since Magnentius and Decentius lost, the bust and name is mostly...
Tacitus (who wrote Germania in the first century A.D.) said that the Germanic tribes, “value gold and silver for their use in commerce, and are...
Here is a recent auction win that I think is pretty interesting. It is an unofficial FEL TEMP overstruck on a posthumous issue of Constantine I....
The second coin, of Gordian, has to be a fake because of the reverse IVNO REGINA; as Emperors never used this, except for Claudius II (RIC V...
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