I need some help on this Follis of either Maximinanus or Maximinus. I cannot find an exact match for either of these two emperors. I wonder if...
I have always had trouble with the Ptolemaic tetradrachms of Hellenistic Egypt, that is telling them apart. One of these four below is definitely...
I may get bounced or banned from this site for writing this but in the hope that something positive for the site and those who post here may come...
I have an Alexandrian tetradrachm of circa 250 AD whose previous owner had it as a coin of Trebonianus Gallus, but the reverse, the common...
Hi, guys. I need help with this one, a Roman Provincial bronze ca.28 mm, 11 grams. I cannot figure out from his image or the partial inscription...
I was going over my collection recently and noticed something I had not thought of earlier. What I noticed was that if one pairs Roman Provincial...
I have noticed that I have accidentally been putting up double posts, usually as a response to sone other post. How do I remove a duplicate post?...
Most of us are familiar with the term, "Nummus", which seems to be commonly applied to small bronze coins, frequently advertised on coin sites as...
I have decided to visit an old friend whom I have been neglecting of late. I started collecting coins back in the 1950's and at that time one...
Going through some of my odds and ends I have this smallish, Ae 3 bronze of some member of the Constantine family, coins of whom I often have...
I'm going through my Byzantine coins and found one I think I misattributed at the time. It is a very small follis, about the size of a US nickel...
This morning, on my newsfeed, there was an interesting article titled, 'We May Have Underestimated the First Known Outbreak of Bubonic Plague". We...
A while ago there was a post that brought up the names of some authors of historical fiction, mostly Roman but some Greek as well. I am an avid...
I can't tell much about Sassanian coinage. Can someone tell me which Sassanian King of Kings I have here. Sorry the images are not up to snuff....
Medieval is not my strongpoint. I acquired a couple that I need help with, two what are pennies or perhaps one is a denier. The one is probably an...
Several weeks ago there was a thread posted here about saving ancients as type sets. I was very much surprised by that idea, mainly because I had...
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