NGC Certified Slabs

A soldier during the reigns of Aurelian and Probus, Galerius was named Caesar in 293 and Augustus 12 years later, during the Tetrarchy period, when the Empire was divided into smaller units for ease...

Faustina the Elder was of noble blood; Trajan was her great-great-great uncle. Her marriage to Antoninus Pius helped legitimize his claim to the throne one of many examples of Rome s matrilineal...

Faustina the Younger was a daughter of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius and Roman Empress Faustina the Elder. She was a Roman Empress and wife to her maternal cousin Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius...

Fausta was the second wife of Constantine I.

The lost wonder of the ancient world, the famed Hanging Gardens, were not located at Babylon, as originally thought, but at Susa, in the Biblical realm of Elam or so some numismatists now believe...

Russian Empire, Elizabeth (1741-1762), 5 Kopek, medium grade Slabs.

Typical Mexico real fragment recovered from the 1784 wreck of the El Cazador. The Legendary Shipwreck of El Cazador (1784)In the late 18th century, Spains economy was in crisisespecially in colonial...

Typical Mexico 2 real fragment recovered from the 1784 wreck of the El Cazador. The Legendary Shipwreck of El Cazador (1784) In the late 18th century, Spains economy was in crisisespecially in...

Assuming the throne at the tender age of 14, after a palace coup, Elagabalus was anything but the innocent child. Uninterested in the military or affairs of state, the young emperor made use of his...

This coin was on the bottom of the English Channel for almost 200 years. It was part of the cargo of the Admiral Gardner, an East India Company ship bound for Madras that sunk during a storm in 1809.

Domitian was the younger brother of Titus and son of Vespasian, and the last member of the Flavian dynasty. As emperor, Domitian strengthened the economy by revaluing the Roman coinage, expanded the...

Diocletian assumed command in 284, closing the book on five decades of near-anarchy. He ruled with an iron fist, stamping out Christians where he could. He is best remembered today for his Palace, an...

Diocletian assumed command in 284, closing the book on five decades of near-anarchy. He ruled with an iron fist, stamping out Christians where he could. He is best remembered today for his Palace, an...

Magnus Decentius was a usurper during the reign of Constantius II.

On January 6, 1198, Levon the Magnificent was crowned king, establishing the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. Levon, known in the West as Leo, was a major figure in the Third Crusade, and Little Armenia...

Unlike his younger half-brothers, Constantine s eldest son Crispus was not born in the purple that is, his father was not emperor when he was born so he was not a spoiled child. Indeed, his...

Unlike his younger half-brothers, Constantine s eldest son Crispus was not born in the purple that is, his father was not emperor when he was born so he was not a spoiled child. Indeed, his...

Constantine the Great was the first Christian Emperor of Rome, the founder of the great city of Constantinople, and arguably the most historically significant Roman ruler of the Common Era. He...

In the year 330, Constantine the Great-established a city on the Bosporus, what had been a sleepy town called Byzantium. He christened the new city, New Rome, but it came to be known as the City of...

Constantius II, Fausta s middle son, was the most ruthlessly efficient of the sons of Constantine. He was elevated to Caesar at age seven, and in 333 was given the city of Antioch.

When the deathly ill emperor Diocletian abdicated in 305, he divided the unwieldy Empire into two sections, each with its own Augustus and its own Caesartwo men in the East, two men in the West. This...

When the deathly ill emperor Diocletian abdicated in 305, he divided the unwieldy Empire into two sections, each with its own Augustus and its own Caesar two men in the East, two men in the West...

When the deathly ill emperor Diocletian abdicated in 305, he divided the unwieldy Empire into two sections, each with its own Augustus and its own Caesar two men in the East, two men in the West...

Constantine II was the first son of Constantine the Great and his second wife, Fausta. He was born in the purple that is, his father was Augustus when he came into the world and he grew up a spoiled,...

Constantine II was the first son of Constantine the Great and his second wife, Fausta. He was born in the purple that is, his father was Augustus when he came into the world and he grew up a spoiled,...

Constantine the Great was the first Christian Emporer of Rome. It was Constantine who made Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire, elevating what had been a fringe religious...

Constantine the Great was the first Christian Emperor of Rome, the founder of the great city of Constantinople, and arguably the most historically significant Roman ruler of the Common Era. This...

When we think of ancient Rome, we think first of the gladiators. These professional fighters delighted frenzied crowds in the Colosseum, doing battle with wild animals, with condemned criminals, and...

The son of the enlightened Marcus Aurelius, Commodus had more in common with the emperor Caligula. Believing himself a genuine deity, he filled Rome with statues of himself in godly poses, and...

Clodius Albinus was just one pretender to the throne in the aptly named year of the five emperors (193 AD). He had somewhat more success than the other claimants, by allying himself with Septimius...

In the year 268, Caesar Marcus Aurelius Claudius Augustus, known as Claudius II Gothicus, assumed the Roman throne. Desperate for fresh army recruits, he decreed that young men remain unmarried,...

NGC Slab of AR quinarius of Celtic tribes in ancient Gaul, early Roman rule, c. 60-50 BCE.

It is appropriate that an Empress so mighty should issue the largest copper coin ever used in regular circulation. Weighing in at a massive 51 grams on average, these enormous 5-kopek copper coins...

Carus succeeded Probus as emperor of Rome.

Carinus, was first appointed Caesar in 282 CE and then in 283 CE co-emperor by his father, the emperor Carus (282-283 CE). He was killed along with his father and co-emperor brother Numerian in an...

The son of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna, Caracalla assumed sole control of Rome after murdering his brother Geta in 211. A year later, he issued the famous Edict of Caracalla, granting full...

This bronze coin, class AE2, is an example of the anonymous Byzantine folles featuring the image of Jesus Christ, facing forwarda different style than Roman coins, which had portraits left- or...

One of the notorious Thirty Tyrants, Aureolus was an able and efficient general, commanding armies under Gallienus. He attempted to usurp his benefactor in 268, allying himself with the great...

Aurelian is known for reuniting the Empire after its fracture during the reign of Gallienus, and also for being the Father of Christmas. In the year 274, the winter solstice fell on 25 December. The...

Following the removal of Herod Archelaus, the province of Judaea was formally annexed into the Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus in 6 CE. Governance was handed over to Roman prefects (later known as...