Here's another first for this year.... my first janiform Roman obverse... My first drachm featuring the iconic Alexander as Hercules design: And my first coin featuring portraits of the triumvirs... in this case Mark Antony and Octavian.
CRH find from a nickel roll...tossed into a foreign coin bin for months...realized in time!! Not bad for a nickel investment!!
I'll be going there today for our annual trip to Strasburg Railroad to ride the Santa's Paradise Express
I opened my Christmas gift from my pops early and was happy to find silver! I won’t likely be able to leave it in the cardboard for long, lol. Merry Christmas to y’all... even to our club of curmudgeons!
Here's a tiny little thing: Divus Constantine I, AD 307-337. Roman billon reduced centenionalis, 1.69 g, 13.8 mm, 11 h. Nicomedia, 4th officina, AD 347-348. Obv: DV CONSTANTI-NVS PT AVGG, veiled and draped bust, right. Rev: VN-MR either side of Constantine, veiled and togate, standing right; SMNΔ• in exergue. Refs: RIC viii p. 475, 57; LRBC I 1155; Cohen 716; RCV 17469.
I have always been a world coin "type collector" and couldn't afford the more iconic coins pictured on the covers of the coin books I would flip through in my local library. Forty years on and I can squeak by and still buy a few here and there. Here are two purchased in the last few years that have been on my "list"