We just had a wonderful thread on Maximinus Thrax, the giant. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/maximinus-thrax.381866/ This coin of his son...
Here is the last issue of Maximinus, from 238. [ATTACH] PM TRP IIII COS PP. TRP IIII dates it to year 4, 238 before April [BMC] BMC 219 Sear...
I think you will appreciate having images of your coins on the web. You have quite a variety. I really like your comments. It is not just a...
"suspicious..Lots 108, 109, 112, 116, 121,125, 129, 180, 184, 188.." I looked into a few of the pedigrees given in the Lansky auction. I have a...
EDIT: See my research below, confirming the pedigrees.
@JFRTM, I like your broad approach to collecting world coins. On the off chance you get interested in ancient coins, here is a page on various...
Thank you. EDIT: I posted below about the pedigrees.
Can you identify for us a few lot numbers of coins you regard as fakes?
I am announcing my website on Byzantine coin legends: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/legends.html It is possible to collect Byzantine coins by...
[ATTACH] After Italy was reconquered for the empire under Justinian, Syracuse, on the southeast coast of Sicily, became a Roman mint. Under...
I'm glad I got this sestertius from CNG in 2019 BC (Before Covid) [ATTACH] 32-20 mm. 28.58 grams. LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG HILARITAS RIC III...
That Katz auction is loaded with numerous fakes (see lots 257ff) and they, and biddr, have been informed by several of us. I have been told that...
I just checked about 50 coins of Crispus, Constantine II, and Constantius II and didn't find anything like sideburns. [ATTACH] Common BEATA...
Anastasius inherited a dysfunctional coinage with only a tiny 1-gram AE4 coin and gold coins, with no convenient denominations in between. He...
That link to the BnF site takes me to a coin's obverse that is not the correct coin. Their search engine was not too helpful. I finally found the...
Here is my Nicopolis city gate: [ATTACH] 26 mm. 11.79 grams. Hristova and Jekov Nikolois ad Istrum 8.23.46.3 Price and Trell 58, no photo, but...
True. I used to think Class A1 was scarce, but I do not think so anymore. Byzantine copper is often in poor condition and not of much value....
It was common for PIVS FELIX to be almost spelled out under Gordian III: [ATTACH] IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG Under Heraclius (610-641) there...
A friend of mine collected the "Cross above head" early Byzantine varieties for many years. I studied them and put them on the web for him:...
Here is an introduction to Byzantine copper coins: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ You will find most of your types there.
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