NGC Certified Slabs

Volusian was co-emperor with his father Trebonianus Gallus. Trouble on the frontiers and their inability to win the confidence of the army brought about a successful revolt by the future emperor Aemillianus, in which they were both killed.

NGC certified 8-real fragment from the wreck of the Vliegenthart. Philip V, 1735.

In 269, Postumus was murdered by his own troops, and the Gallic Empire, which depended on the force of his personality, began to crumble. Victorinus, who assumed control of the breakaway empire late in 269, was a fine military leader. He successfully...

Valerius Gratus was the Roman Prefect of Judaea province under Tiberius from 15 to 26 CE. He succeeded Annius Rufus and was replaced by P ontius Pilate. The government of Gratus is chiefly remarkable for the frequent changes he made in the appointment of...

Vetranio, was an experienced soldier and officer asked by Constantina, the sister of Roman Emperor Constantius II, to proclaim himself Caesar. Her brother Constans had been killed by Magnentius earlier that year and she probably thought Vetranio could...

Vespasian, founder of the Flavian dynasty, was a renowned military commander and took part in both the Roman invasion of Britain in 43 CE and the Roman subjugation of the First Jewish Revolt in 69 CE. On the death of Nero, he was one of the four rival...

The Age of Chaos, also known as the Crisis of the Third Century, was a fifty-year period of extreme political and economic volatility that almost saw the disintegration of the might Roman Empire. From 235-284, no fewer than 25 would-be emperors claimed...

In the year 260, in a battle on the Eastern front, the emperor Valerian was taken prisoner by the hated Persians. He died in captivity, and his corpse was stuffed and hung on the wall of the palace of the Persian king.

Valentinian III was Roman emperor in the West from 425-455. Made emperor in childhood, his reign over the Roman Empire was one of the longest, but was dominated by powerful generals vying for power amid civil wars and the invasions of Late Antiquity's...

The son of the Valentinian I, Valentinian II was elevated to Emperor at the age of four, and never enjoyed true power. Most of the West was controlled by the usurper Magnus Maximus, and in Italy, where he lived, his mother Justina was the de facto ruler...

The son of the Valentinian I, Valentinian II was elevated to Emperor at the age of four, and never enjoyed true power. Most of the West was controlled by the usurper Magnus Maximus, and in Italy, where he lived, his mother Justina was the de facto ruler...

The son of the Valentinian I, Valentinian II was elevated to Emperor at the age of four, and never enjoyed true power. Most of the West was controlled by the usurper Magnus Maximus, and in Italy, where he lived, his mother Justina was the de facto ruler...

Valentinian was a stout, brave, rough man of limited education but strong faith, a soldier named emperor. As soon as he reached Constantinople, he divided the Empire with his brother Valens, whom he left to rule the East, while he himself went to govern...

Valens became the Eastern Roman Emperor in 364. By far his most notable accomplishment was the construction of the aqueduct that supplied water to Constantinople, his capital city, for over a thousand years. Although a fine administrator, Valens was not...

Roman AE of Vabalathus and Aurelian NGC

Umayyad Caliphate, Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik (AH105-125 / 724-743 CE), Silver Dirham, Wasit Mint, AH125 (743 CE). Struck during the final year of Hishams long and stable reign, this genuine Umayyad dirham reflects the classic Islamic monetary reform style:...

St. Peter holding the key to heaven

The Roman Age of Chaos began in 235 CE, when the Emperor Alexander Severus was set upon by his own troops, who replaced him with Maximinus I Max Thrax, as he is sometimes known. By the time Gordian III assumed the throne in 238, at the ripe old age of...

Decius, was the first of many Illyrian or Barracks emperors to come, originating from the modern day former Yugoslavia, especially Serbia. Decius was a distinguished senator who had served as a consul, governor and urban prefect of Rome. He was...

The reign of Trajan marks the zenith of Roman civilization. The borders were never as vast, the economy never as booming, the culture never as high. In an era of almost constant warfare, plague, and famine, it was a season of relative peace and prosperity

The son of Arcadius, Theodosius the Calligrapher is famous for developing the Codex Theososianus, or the Theodosian law code, an important compilation of Roman law. He founded the University of Constantinople and built the Theodosian Walls that defended...

Born in Spain in about 346, Theodosius was selected by Gratian to assume command of the army, was elevated to Eastern Emperor in 379, and assumed control of both East and West upon the death of his brother-in-law Valentinian II in 392. The last three...

Theodora was wife to Constantius I Chlorus.

Theodora was wife to Constantius I Chlorus.

In 269, Postumus was murdered by his own troops, and the Gallic Empire, which depended on the force of his personality, began to crumble. Victorinus, who assumed control of the breakaway empire late in 269, was killed by one of his officers, whose wife...

In 269, Postumus was murdered by his own troops, and the Gallic Empire, which depended on the force of his personality, began to crumble. Victorinus, who assumed control of the breakaway empire late in 269, was killed by one of his officers, whose wife...

Tacitus was Roman Emperor from 275 to 276 CE. During his short reign he campaigned against the Goths and the Heruli, for which he received the title Gothicus Maximus. Italian born, an increasingly rare attribute for emperors of this period, he was chosen...

Tabaristan NGC Certified Slab - Zoroastrian Dabuyid

At the height of the dynasty in the early second century, Kushanas controlled a large territory ranging from the Aral Sea through areas that include present day Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan into northern India as far east as Benares and as far...

Friend of the emperor Galerius, and like him of common birth, Severus II was Western Roman Emperor for a year before fleeing to Ravenna, where he was assassinated.

Cleaning up the decadent mess left behind by his cousin Elagabalus, Severus Alexander was as kindly as he was effective. The 13 years of his reign were marked by general peace and prosperity. He checked the Sassanids in the East, and manipulated the...

Little is definitively known about this Roman Empress, wife of the Emperor Aurelian, although she seems to have descended in some way from the Emperor Trajan. Aside from a brief listing in the Historia Augusta, there are no literary sources in which she...

The withered general Septimius Severus prevailed in the perilous Year of the Five Emperors, which began with the murder of Commodus on New Year s Eve, 192, defeating four rival claimants to the throne. He founded the Severan dynasty.

The Age of Chaos, also known as the Crisis of the Third Century, was a fifty-year period of extreme political and economic volatility that almost saw the disintegration of the might Roman Empire. From 235-284, no fewer than 25 would-be emperors claimed...

The fate of an emperor s spouse was ultimately tied to the fortunes of her husband, father-in-law and sons. With the capture of her father-in-law, Valerian, by the Persians, the army on the Rine rebelled against her husband Gallienus and killed her son...

In the spring of A.D. 260, the Roman Emperor Valerian was taken prisoner by the Persian King of Kings. This humiliating capture, unprecedented in the long annals of Rome, ended Valerian s reign, leaving his overmatched son Gallienus on the throne. By...

Roman AE Antoninianus of Quintillus (AD270) NGC

Procopius was a usurper under Valens.

Probus s six-year reign is impressively long, given that Probus delivered Gaul from the ravages of the Germans, pursued them across the Rhine, and everywhere defeated them. His operating theory was that soldiers should never be idle, even in times of...

Of common stock, Postumus rose swiftly through the ranks, eventually commanding Roman forces among the Celts a territory that included modern-day France, Belgium, Holland, and England. His soldiers proclaimed Postumus emperor of the Gallic Empire. He an