Ancient Roman and Greek
Coins
Answers to
frequently asked
questions
(FAQ, 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 a common 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.
Constantine as Caesar and
as FIL AVG (A.D.
306-310)
An
illustrated article on the the Roman rulers and their mints
from
306-310 when Constantine was awarded the unusual title "Filius
Augusti".
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 Marks
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
Officina Numbers on Late Roman
Coins
The unusal use of officina
numbers spelled out on issues of Valentinian, Valens, and
Gratian.