2025
This year I primarily got reverse types that I wanted for type sets. Many were not high-quality coins. I will upgrade them when better ones come along at reasonable prices. Also, I know that many (especially among the Byzantine coins) have been repatinated. However, a few are in outstanding condition. Many of my purchases were not coins, rather Islamic weights which have their own web pages. The pages on weights do not distinguish those bought in 2025 from those bought earlier.
Coins below are organized in the usual catalog order which is mostly chronological.
Skip down to Roman (Licinius, Constantine, Theodosius) Byzantine, Crusader, Turkoman figural bronze, other.
Greek
Troas, Kebren
Small. Obol
I got it for the ram's head.
Roman
Agrippa
Cavino "Paduan" imitation
Not ancient, but extremely deceptive. The ANS has one exactly like it including the centering and flaw on the rim at 6:00, labeled as genuine. I told them that this is a published Cavino and showed them theirs is identical to mine, so that one is labeled in error and they acknowledged it, but they have not yet change the site as of Jan. 2026. Their die-identity was used in the 1974 ANSMN (volume 19) article on Agrippa to illustrate the best style!
I bought it as a Cavino, honestly advertised as such by JAZ Numismatics.
Domitian
Semis.
COS V PRINC IVVENT
Cornucopia, S C either side.
It is on my "quadrans" page.
Trajan
Repatinated.
Dupondius minted in Rome for distrbution in Syria.
It says "PARTHICO" and is for my Persian wars page.
Hadrian
Tiny. Half-quadrans
Antoninus Pius
Provincial from
Antioch in Pisidia
I have a page on FORTVNA, and this is from the only provinical city to spell out "FORTVNA".
Top 10
Caracalla
In spite of its flaws, this coin is remarkably fine for the type. Usually the reverse legend is mostly off the flan.
DESTINO IMPERAT
"Destined to be emperor"
The only Roman coin type with this legend. It is on my "unique" pages.
Top 10
Caracalla
Syrian tetradrachm
Laodicea ad Mare
Among the most common Syrian tetradrachms.
Just a nice coin.
Macrinus
Carrhae, Syria
Tetradrachm
On my "Persian wars" page. Of course, Carrhae is famous.
Top 10
Severus Alexander, 222-235
Antioch
Large, with a complicated reverse.
Philip
Nisibis, Mesopotamia
triangular pediment
On my Nisibis page.
Diocletian
Roman Alexandria
Year 12, the last year of issue of Alexandrian tetradrachms.
This is relevant to the dating of Domitius Domitianus.
Maximian
HERCVLI PACIFERO
On my Maximian ants page.
Galerius, 293-305-311
This one I bought just for its condition.
Maximian
SALVS AVGG
This one I bought for the helmet.
Roman, Licinius.
I am working on a web page with a type set of Licinius and Licinius II. I sought types, and even varieties, I didn't have. If I find better ones later, I'll attempt to upgrade.
Licinius
308-324
Licinius
308-324
This one I bought for the
GENIO POPVLI ROMANI
webpage. It is a late revival of the type, much smaller than earlier examples.
Licinius
308-324
GENIO IMPERATORIS
This issue, with the "O" above the officina number in the field, includes Maximian as active Augustus, which proves the type of Maximian is from his third reign.
Licinius
308-324
Jupiter holding thunderbolt and staff
Licinius
308-324
Jupiter holding globe and staff
Licinius
308-324
SOLI INVICTO
Sol fully robed, not naked, holding head of Serapis.
Licinius II
317-324
A rare VOTA type on both my Vota and Licinius II pages.
Licinius II
327-324
A VOTA type on both my Vota and Licinius II pages.
Licinius II
317-324
Constantine
Not in RIC (simply by mistake), but not rare anyway.
Bought for my
GENIO POPVLI ROMANI
pages.
Constantine
FVNDAT PACIS
Excellent condition.
Top 10
Constantine
Small. Half-follis
SOLI INVICTO (no "COMITI")
Constantine
Small. Half-follis
GLORIA PERPET
Constantius II
a type with "XV" normally for Constans and scarce or rare for Constantius II.
Constantius II
"Hut" which is normally for Constans
but Constans minted some for Constantius II.
Theodosiu
AE3. Excellent condition.
Theodosius
AE2
Theodosius
AE2
Arcadius
AE3.
Not great, but a pretty good example of this early facing-bust type.
Arcadius
AE2
I like the "hand of God" type and this one is a very good example.
Byzantine
Anastasius
Repatinated.
Small. Only 18 mm. A "small module" first reform coin.
Sear 23
Another one.
Sear 23
Anastasius
Very small: 13.5-12.5 mm.
Sear 29
Justin and Justinian, joint reign.
Sear 133
Formerly rare, but many have appeared recently.
Justinian
at Antioch as "Theopolis"
Sear 234
Justin II and Sophia
Nicomedia mint
Sear 370
Justin II, 565-5768
Year 1 at Antioch
Emperor holding Victory on globe
with blundered obverse legend, continuing the blundered legends of Justinian of his years 36-28.
Sear 378
Justin II
Sear 380
Sear 382
Year 1 at Antioch
Sear 387
Justin II
Unusual mintmark "CON" not for Constantinople
Formerly attributed to Constantine in Numidia, but now to a "military mint".
Sear 403
Tiberius II, 578-582
Sear 439
Thessalonica
Sear 492
Maurice
Sear 494
Maurice
Sear 516
Nicomedia
Sear 518
Sear 521
Maurice, 582-602
10-Nummia
Antioch
Sear 537
Maurice
Sear 540
Antioch
Maurice
Sear 542
Antioch
Phocas
Sear 658
Phocas
Sear 674
Antioch
Phocas
Sear 675
Antioch
Phocas
Sear 676A
Heraclius
Sear 824
Thessalonica
Heraclius
Sear 830
Thessaloncia
Heraclius
Sear 856
Seleucia in Isauria
Very rare from a formerly-rare mint. However, only the follis denomination is usually seen.
Top 10
Anonymous Class C
Repatinated. Even so, nice for the type.
Sear 1825
Michael VIII
Good reverse lettering for the period.
Sear 2283
Crusaders of the First Crusade
Roger of Salerno
CCS Antioch 8
Remarkably legible. The most legible I have seen of this type.
Top 10
Roger of Salerno
CCS Antioch 9
Not very nice, but the "St. George spearing a dragon" type is almost always poor like this.
S&S 44
S&S 48
31.2-29.4 mm. 9.66 grams.
Nasir al-Din Artuq-Arslan
AH 597-637. AD 1201-1239.
Turkoman seated facing on throne, cross-legged, legend around/5-line legend with smaller lines at top, left and right.
Obverse legend: al-Sultal al-mu'azzam 'Ala al-Dunya wa al-Din Kaiqubad [this is his Seljuk overlord, Kay Qubadh I] Qasim amir al mu'minin [Partner of the Commander of the Faithful]
Turkoman
S&S 60
Top 10
Turkoman
S&S 71
Top 10
Turkoman
S&S 76
Remakably legible.
Turkoman
S&S 87
Ilkhan
Abaqa Khan, son of Hulagu
1234-1282
Struck AH 678 AD1280. at Irbil. Well after the first Mongol invasion.
(Time of Michael VIII)
2-headed eagle inside two circles with legends
Inset at 12:00 with an animal (rabbit?) left
Turkoman
Ayyubid
SSS Ay-8
Turkoman
Danishmendid
Lion-rider right
SSS Danishmendid 6.
Rare.
Top 10
Turkoman
SSS Begteginid-4
Turkoman
SSS Salduqid-1
Remarkably nice for this rare type.
Top 10
Other
Almohad square dirham, 1121-1269.
17 mm. 1.30 grams
Almohad Caliphate, a North African Berber Muslim empire founded in present day Morocco and in power 1121-1269. At its height, it controlled much of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus) and North Africa (the Maghreb).
Unfortunately, it is anonymous and it is not possible to determine the exact date and mint. Because of this, it is called an "anonymous square dirhem".
The legend is (the web tells me--I don't read Arabic)
There is no God but Allah.
All is up to Allah.
There is no power except by Allah.
Allah — our Lord.
Mohammed - our Messenger.
before us.
Wilkes 716, page 68.
Go to 2024 or 2023.
Gallienus
Gallienus
Carinus
Carinus
Constantine
Constantine
Constantius II
Valentinian II
Theodosius
Constans II
Constans II
Constantine IV
Michael II
Byzantine