Always nice to get a plate coin and a provenance! No wonder you're thrilled!
Fantastic find, @Claudius_Gothicus, and fantastic write-up! It's great to see the legacy of T-Bone Tuesday going strong! The more FELICITAS...
What a find, @Harry G! I only have him as Caesar. [IMG] Hostilian as Caesar, AD 250-251. Roman AR antoninianus, 4.32 g, 20.5 mm, 5 h. Rome...
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ means "of king."
Dupondius of Hadrian: [IMG] Hadrian, AD 117-138. Roman orichalcum dupondius, 13.78 g, , 26.1 mm, 7 h. Rome, ca. AD 119-124. Obv: IMP CAESAR...
Wonderful write-up! I love the photos of the various archaeological sites associated with Hadrian.
My latest coin with an empress is, unsurprisingly, one of Faustina I. This reverse design is only found in the middle bronze denomination....
I wish I were able to recognize the ethnic on the reverse of your coin. Identification is challenging because there were dozens of similar coins...
Indeed! The fact that these coins are obverse die matches allows one to reconstruct the missing part of the obverse legend on the first by reading...
It is a personification of the Senate, not any specific senator.
That's really cool, @Ryro! I got one! [IMG] Anonymous, Second Punic War, 218-202 BC. Roman Republican Æ as, 27.8 g, 31.1 mm, 1 h. Uncertain...
Alexandrian Nero: [IMG] Nero and Claudia Octavia Roman provincial billon tetradrachm, 11.1 g, 25.0 mm Egypt, Alexandria, AD 56-57 Obv: ΝΕΡ ΚΛΑΥ...
Oh! I think mine's a double die match to @Sulla80's!
The whole issue of the iconography on this issue is an enigma to me. It has a little bit of everything: the pilei of the dioscuri, the thyrsus of...
I am able to name all of them including a few usurpers, of course. And in order, along with their wives and kids up to about Claudius II. I cannot...
Apparently, Show World Center opened in 1977 and occupied the first four stories of a twelve-story building, and had 22,000 square feet of retail...
That's a very interesting question, because in Greek, it illustrates an uncommon grammatical phenomenon. Θύρσος (thyrsos) is a second declension...
That is an odd scenario, @Valentinian. Attractive orichalcum color indeed. Mine has the unusual accusative case IVNONEM reverse inscription but...
There were two series with officina marks issued in 248: one with Greek officina numbers (no animals) and the SAECVLARES AVGG ones with animals...
Fantastic! I love those dual-portrait issues from the Black Sea region!
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