Ancient Roman and Greek Coins 

Answers to
frequently asked questions
(FAQ, mostly
for beginners)
associated pages about buying on eBay and 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.
A related site where catalogs
are grouped by
collecting theme.
Byzantine Coins of Cherson (Kherson)
The unusual 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 unusual use of officina
numbers spelled out on issues of Valentinian, Valens, and
Gratian.
Vetranio, Roman emperor in AD 350:
His six AE coin types.
The Roman emperor Vetranio ruled in the
Balkans for ten months in AD 350. His AE
coin types are listed and illustrated here.
Other themes of interest, including
one emperor who issued coins from one mint with five
distinctly different mintmarks, on pages
here
CONSTANTINOPOLIS: Roman coins commemorating the founding of Constantinople under Constantine.
A short article here.
Geta, his portraits, 198-212 AD. Geta's portraits change as he ages from nine to twenty-two.