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  1. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Here is an antoninianus of Gordian III featuring Apollo and his lyre...
  2. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Volusian is seemingly always hailed as Vibio Volusiano (not Volusianus) so it's sort of an acclimation. (dative case perhaps?) EDIT: It is the Dative case, I googled some examples... Anyway here is my Felicitas Publica example (Sestertius).
  3. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Too bad Gavin. Sometimes deadbeats show up, sorry it had to be with your coins. Anyway, I have not been on CT or Numisforums too much over the last couple of months, hope to get more involved again.
  4. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Here's a few of my favorites from my collection: Note: The Probus medallion is NOT in my collection but it shows that even in the latter 3rd century some talented artists were still around.
  5. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Nice coins Ken I particularly like the DIVO CARO issue. Heck, pretty soon the Treasury will be minting our own variety of antoniniani coupled with runaway inflation. An Edict of maximum wages and prices by the Fed? California sending each resident an inflation stimulus of $1050 seems like something that a third century emperor would do. Keep churning out the coins!
  6. Ancient Coin Hunter
    A number of Focas and Heraclius solidi discovered in a nature preserve... https://www.livescience.com/byzantine-empire-gold-coin-hoard
  7. Ancient Coin Hunter
    What an amazing coincidence re: the Sear reference. Certainly a very interesting coin and symbolic apparently. Just to continue on the theme there is a petroglyph perhaps depicting the supernova of 1054 in White Sands National Monument (New Mexico, USA) etched by Native Americans. Also, note that the supernova remnant of 1054 remains visible as the Crab Nebula (Messier 1) in the constellation Taurus, a rapidly expanding cloud of gas from the exploding star. It is visible in modest sized amateur telescopes.
  8. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Nice work narrowing it down. I have one Attilea of Claudius which features a helmeted Athena and a bust of the emperor. Yours however turned out not to be from Attilea in any case.
  9. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Really nice. I thought @LONGINUSthat you were going to sell your collection (a somewhat sad event) but it is very gratifying to see that you are not! Nice flips, too.
  10. Ancient Coin Hunter
    I watched the show and typically the channel has nothing interesting at all so it was kind of remarkable. It mentioned that the cost of the beasts was in the hundreds of thousands of sesterces but by Symmachus time that was a non sequitur. Anyway the episode "Beastmaster" was good and covered the depopulation of African animals for the games estimating that over a million beasts were killed in the coliseum. Of course the famed Sicilian mosaic from the time of Maximian showing the gathering of animals was shown...
  11. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Nice gift and a coin from the man who promised each Praetorian 25,000 sesterces if nominated as emperor. Whether he paid up such a kingly sum is unknown, though it seems doubtful. At any rate, when the real army of Septimius Severus approached they panicked and dispatched the wealthy senator.
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    Nice display @Spaniard - quite attractive. I'm one of those collectors who keeps almost everything in paper envelopes with some plastic flips. For the most part the flips I find prone to cracking and collecting dust. So actually there is nothing to see unless I remove a coin by hand.
  13. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Not very often. I went to McDonalds last month for the first time since 2009. Had a BigMac. It was OK.
  14. Ancient Coin Hunter
    It's actually theorized that it is cheaper to eat at restaurants these days then buy food at the grocery store.
  15. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Here's one as Caesar:
  16. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Here's one...
  17. Ancient Coin Hunter
    A non-serious thread. I'm partial to IPAs. One of my favorites is the Lagunitas Maximus Colossal IPA. The can features the visage of a dog wearing a laurel wreath. The legend reads "Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet, Consecteture Adipiscing Elit! Donec Maximus...ex et Nisi Aliquam Commodo...Are you not entertained?" Please share your favorites, Roman or not.
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    One thing you can do is to quarantine the coin from any other bronze pieces you may have with some corrosion or bronze disease, that way the condition won't spread to your new coin. I had a follis of Galerius with bronze disease which actually got worse over a couple of decades and infected an AE of Constantius II.
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    I've got several Valerian and Gallienus era coins that are provincial but as I am on my phone I can't post them yet. A few were from Leu and acquired in the last 9 months
  20. Ancient Coin Hunter
    In my view something about the elephant seems off.
  21. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Cool coin and I'm glad so many folks were able to solve the riddle.
  22. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Oh yeah the Alexander the Great Caracalla connection. Antoninus Augustus Pius equipped thousands of troops with phalanx weapons in preparation for his attempt to conquer the known world. However he was slain at Carrhae as he relieved himself by the side of the road. Those gold medallions revealing his megalomania still survive though.
  23. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Wild guess - no SEV?
  24. Ancient Coin Hunter
    Cleaned yes, tooled no. Nice pick-up.
  25. Ancient Coin Hunter
    I've also got the Germanicus Max V of Gallienus,,,and a Fides militum sestertius
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