RIC V 20 IMP C DIOCLETIANVS AVG PAX AVGGG S/P//C 4.36g, 23mm Purchased from finder, found in Malton, Yorkshire 2021 [ATTACH] After a rather...
Last year was an odd one for me, and I found far fewer interesting coins than in the previous year, which, combined with our purchasing of our...
[ATTACH] LMCC 7.05.006, RIC 209C IMP LICINIVS PF AVG GENIO POP ROM -/*/PLN 22mm, 4.61g, 311-312AD Not rare, not terribly exciting, just a really...
I'm constantly on the lookout for Carausius' coins, but find myself passing on them when they appear most of the time because it's quite rare for...
In one of my recent threads I mused about a recent acquisition, a selection of 22 'barbarous radiates', most of them from the period just before...
For my first purchases of the new year, I've managed to buy two lots that most people wouldn't dream of bothering with. In fact, they might be...
I've written previously about the coins issued at London between the years of 311-313AD under Constantine, featuring PLN in the exergue, and...
Well, it's been quite a year hasn't it? Far too much unpleasantness, too many untimely deaths (as if there could be too few), and lots of...
Between 311-312 AD, the London mint of Constantine produced a series of coins with the -/*/PLN mintmark, with a rather staggering 10 different...
I normally approach coin buying with the philosophy of research first, know the coin, then buy it, but I spotted this tiny dot of a coin in its...
[ATTACH] LMCC 3.01.024, RIC 37A CONSTANTIVS NOB C GENIO POPV - LI ROMANI -/-//- 8.47g, 28mm 303-May 305 AD Purchased from Asprey Coins, ex Spink...
So after a time of collecting coins of the Tetrarchies from the London Mint, and using Cloke and Toone's superb book as my primary reference, I...
Between 311-313AD a pair of new mint marks were added to the coinage, PLN in exergue with a * first in the right field (311-312) and then in the...
Won a coin on ebay yesterday, and waiting to get it in hand, but couldn't resist sharing the seller's pictures in advance. The coin was...
That is the question. [ATTACH] 9.05.013 (cuirassed) or 9.05.015 (trabea) - RIC VII 271 CONSTANTINVS AG - Laureate and cuirassed or trabeate bust...
A couple of days ago I was doing my usual trawl through the many pages of coins on ebay, and came across an entry for a coin of Allectus, a person...
I've been working on a spreadsheet of the London mint types covered by Cloke and Toone's London Mint of Constantius and Constantine to keep track...
[ATTACH] LMCC 3.01.031 MAXIMIANVS NOBIL C GENIO POPVLI ROMANI 27mm, 10.72g, 303-305 AD London, -/-//- I've been collecting London coins since...
[ATTACH] RIC 832A ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP TR POT COS IIII S C - Pietas standing left, holding a fold of drapery in right hand, left hand raised...
[ATTACH] LMCC 5.03.009 - Not in RIC DN MAXIMIANO PF AVG MART-I P-ACIF PLN in exergue, London Mint 307-310 4.64g, 26mm Found in Ivinghoe,...
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