By the time of the later empire it seems like many transactions were handled by way of sealed bags containing conventional amounts of coins --...
I imagine most of these photos are Roma Numismatics ones -- the bluish tone to the silver is quite characteristic. Both the Trajan and Marcus...
That Titus is a beauty (to put it very mildly), I'm very sure I've never seen that much lustre on a bronze before. I acquired this rather lovely...
The rest of the paragraph finishes my point. Cavino lacked the excellent references we moderns have, but when he came to create new imaginary...
Very very interesting, thank you. My inclination (based on no reading beyond this thread) would be to believe that the aurei found in...
I can vouch for the digital version of RIC III 3 -- fully searchable (a great advantage over a paper copy) and the plates are reproduced very...
Very impressive achievement. One is ultimately, I suppose, "ploughing the ocean" in trying to create realistic true-to-life portraits of people...
This looks like Price 2565, so Sardis, c. 334-323 BC. What does the slab say?
I'd concur that this is Price 2151, so it's the product of the mint of Miletus with dates c. 295-275 BC. What does the slab say, out of interest?...
"Fine style" is a designation I think I approve of -- refreshing to see some pure subjectivity among the usual mechanical grading-slabbing...
In a curious coincidence, the sideways pegasus bears some resemblance to the horned helmet on Seleucus Nicator's "trophy coinage": [ATTACH]...
A Geta from Antioch in Pisidia (hence the Latin). O: IMP CAES P SEPT GETA AVG / R: VIRT AVG G COL ANTIOCH SR Couple other examples here (one with...
Actually! Is there a reverse die match between my coin and @dougsmit 's? Quick overlay in Photoshop: [ATTACH]
Happily, another specimen seems to have turned up after BMCRE was published. I rambled a bit about it in this thread. [ATTACH]
I keep an eye out for "year 1" Hadrians. It seems like the official imperial image hadn't quite been nailed down at the start of the reign:...
I can't claim any particular knowledge on this point unfortunately. Curtis Clay had it in-hand in the early 1990s: he wrote briefly about it here....
Very intriguing post, thank you. I would add to this list the curious lack of issues for Hadrian as caesar: an exceptionally rare aureus is...
With ancients, "the book" is absolutely the general history as much as any numismatic text (if not moreso). Reading Suetonius is fairly essential...
That's about as basic as it gets, good grief — now corrected, thanks!
[ATTACH] One recent and one not-so-recent acquisition which I think compare nicely. On the left we have a specimen from Rome, and on the right...
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