My youngest "Roman" coins are these: Constantine XI. Constantinople. 1449/53. Eighth Stavraton. 0.63 gr. 12.7 mm. hr. 11. Sear -; DO 1789....
Yep - I sympathize. Except I end up in the bathroom trying to recall why I am there.
Around 50 years ago, one of my best friends decided to tone some of his Roman bronzes by burying them in his back yard. He left them for a few...
Here is my example of the type. 3.80 gr. Ex CNG 407, lot 617.[ATTACH]
I was earlier this morning reviewing new journals in our library and found a marvelous photo in the Jan. - Feb. 2022 issue of Minerva. It is a...
Actually, most Roman coin inscriptions are in the nominative case; there are exceptions, of course, most notably being those of Trajan, where his...
What the replies have not mentioned is that the words of the legends are in the genitive case, that is, indicating possession. So a more accurate...
Dear Donna, It reflects the historical trend of the scholarship of Classical studies in general. I buy for our library ca. 5000 books a year on...
I'm looking at Hahn's "Money of the Incipient Byzantine Empire Continued", Vienna, 2009. He notes year 21 copper for Maurice from the following...
And Warren, you know I have the half follis as well. Refrained from bidding on the follis in Triton XIX, lot 688. Looking back, I probably should...
$4,000 for a silly decanummium of Anastasius I. 20mm, 4.39 g, 6h. Constantinople mint. Struck 512-517. D N ANASTA SIVS PP AV, pearl-diademed,...
As soon as I get through a lecture I'm preparing for Thur., will toss in my humble opinion....
I'm still here! Busy working on a lecture for Thursday, but will throw in my two tetartera worth after that!
It now occurs to me I attached a 2nd. copy of the photo of some of my John VIII stavrata. It is not that I love them THAT much; I am merely...
What I find beautiful are Palaeologan stavrata. My wife thinks, for this, I am nuts. But I find justification in Sappho's Fragment 16 defining...
Thank you ALL for your wonderful suggestions and comments! Being a luddite, and having spent 50 years at one of the premier library collections of...
Dear CoinTalker Friends, If anyone has an 1895 Sotheby's coin sale catalog, I would be most grateful to learn whether a coin in my...
As far as the coinage of Anastasius I goes, there is indeed no break in continuity with the coinage of the previous century – insofar as the gold...
And this I quote from the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, on the Toupha: Toupha (του̑φα, also τουφίον), tuft of hair from exotic animals used to...
I've trotted these two out previously, but they are atypical and some may find them of interest. Here are two of my favorite Anastasii:...
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