Ancient Roman and Greek
Coins
Answers to frequently asked
questions
(mostly
for beginners)
associated pages about buying
about selling
about moving up from
"beginner" to
"intermediate" collector
(including book
recommendations)
Annotated Roman
coin educational links (with some
Greek coin links too)
information about rarity and its
importance for cost (for intermediate collectors)
information about avoiding fakes
[The coin
to the right is an silver denarius of Roman emperor Septimus Severus,
193-211 AD, with diameter 19 mm.]
Guide to Late
Roman AE Coin Types, AD 364-450
A complete
list of types of emperors
Valentinian I through Theodosius II
and Valentinian III
A resource for
collectors of Late Roman AE coins.
Ancient
Imitations of
Roman Coins
An
educational site about
genuinely ancient coins that were imitations or counterfeits in their
day.
Ancient
Coin Auction Catalogs:
Contents
An
educational site for ancient coin collectors about sale catalogs.
Byzantine Coins of
Cherson (Kherson)
The unusal Byzantine types from the
city of Cherson in the Crimea in Ukraine. A resource for collectors.
The Tripolis mint
of late third century AD Rome
An
illustrated list of all the coin types of the Tripolis mint. An
educational resource
for collectors.
The unusual "quarter-follis"
denomination struck 305-306 AD under the tetrarchy.
An
illustrated list of all the varieties. An educational resource for
collectors.
Officina mintmarks
of the Roman emperors Diocletian and Maximian at Siscia (289-290
AD)
The unique use of the Jovian and Herculian
titles to indicate officina
numbers