Introduction: Numismatic terminology can be confusing, especially for those new to ancient coin collecting. Part of the difficulty stems from the...
Cool! A radiate crown AND a numerical value to introduce the new way of denoting the denomination!
Captive: [IMG] Aurelian AD 270-275. Roman silvered billon Antoninianus, 3.60 gm, 21.7 mm, 6 h. Rome mint, officina 9, issue 11, early –...
The denarius version: [ATTACH] Julia Mamaea, AD 222-235. Roman AR denarius, 2.65 g, 20.5 mm, 1 h. Rome, issue 9A, AD 228. Obv: IVLIA MAMAEA AVG,...
It's important to realize several things when it comes to using the New Testament for numismatic research: 1) We don't know for many coins of...
As always, post anything you feel is relevant! Though Nero is credited with introducing the radiate crown -- representing the rays of the sun --...
This dupondius is on the heavy side and makes the grade! [ATTACH] Faustina Senior, AD 138-141. Roman orichalcum dupondius, 16.19 g, 26.1 mm, 10...
Arcadius coins from an uncleaned lot. Constantinople: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] and Cyzicus: [ATTACH]
Lovely examples, @Andres2 !
It varied. Antoninus Pius issued a large posthumous coinage for Faustina I to celebrate the 10th anniversary of her death, for example.
For more than a decade following the death of their father, Constantine I, on May 22, 337, his two oldest sons, Constantine II and Constantius II,...
These are the two sestertii of Didius Julianus in the RIC plates. It's clear that Plate III, no. 8 is the British Museum specimen I've shown...
[ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius, AD 161-180. Roman AR denarius, 3.53 g, 17.4 mm, 1 h. Rome, AD 169. Obv: M ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXIII, laureate head...
What a find!!
The Wildwinds coin is probably obverse die 4, then, as on BMCRE 27: [ATTACH] Tricky stuff, isn't it?
Yes, the reverse on the Wildwinds coin is Woodward die H, not Doug's. I was wondering about the obverse. This is reverse die H from Woodward:...
ANTΩNEINOC is commonly encountered as a name for Diadumenian on coins from this mint. It's AMNG I (Pick), p. 248, no. 782: [ATTACH]
This one, example 5 at Wildwinds, might be a obverse die-match. [ATTACH] @TIF -- can you do an overlay to verify?
When searching in acsearchinfo, the key features of @dougsmit 's dies to look for are: - the breaks and dots in the obverse legend: IMP CAES M...
Woodward notes that E was found only with obverse die 8 in his study. Obverse die 8 is described as, "IMP CAES M DID.SEV ER IVLIAN AVG, Merzbacher...
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