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    Tourist Fakes: The Quest - Part II, Venice

    It was a multi-part epic. The links are here: Part 1 - Foreword Part 2 - Venice Part 3 - Rome Part 4 - Ephesus Part 5 - Naples and Pompeii I...
    Post by: Eyestrain, Mar 26, 2014 in forum: World Coins
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    Tourist Fakes: The Quest - Part II, Venice

    Without pictures of your coin, I can't be sure. It's possible that your coin is a fourrée, which is a kind of ancient counterfeit in which a...
    Post by: Eyestrain, Mar 25, 2014 in forum: World Coins
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    Gallienus AR Antoninianus

    Colonia Agrippina (Cologne) continued to mint good-metal silver coins even after the content and standards of the Rome mint took a nose dive. I've...
    Post by: Eyestrain, May 31, 2013 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Parthian Coin

    I'm not suggesting the empire went into decline immediately after this period -- simply that Mithradates II conquered new territory, and under his...
    Post by: Eyestrain, May 31, 2012 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Parthian Coin

    That's a drachm of Mithridates II (123 - 88 BC) struck at the Ecbatana mint late in his reign, at the height of the Parthian Empire. The seated...
    Post by: Eyestrain, May 28, 2012 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Most Ruthless Dictator on a Coin

    As far as the Romans go, Nero and Caligula hog all the bad press. But I would give a shout-out to the likes of Commodus and Caracalla. Caracalla...
    Post by: Eyestrain, Nov 3, 2011 in forum: World Coins
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    Need some help identifying ancient coin.

    It's Valens. Emperor and captive reverse. The complete obverse legend is DNVALEN-SPFAVG (Dominus Noster Valens Pius Felix Augustus). The reverse...
    Post by: Eyestrain, Sep 16, 2011 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Julian II

    I never considered a personification of a city or nation on a coin to be pagan. The practice may have started with pagan cultures, but was...
    Post by: Eyestrain, Jul 18, 2011 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Julian II

    Of particular note is that this Apis Bull coin was the final pagan coin of the Roman Empire. From this point on it was all Christian iconography,...
    Post by: Eyestrain, Jul 18, 2011 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Old Roman(?) Coin

    To give you some additional information about the writing on your coin... IMP SEV ALEXANDER AVG Imperator Severus Alexander Augustus P M TR...
    Post by: Eyestrain, Jul 18, 2011 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Question: Romano-Egyptian coins

    I should have specified "west" as related to the rest of the Parthian Empire.
    Post by: Eyestrain, Jun 20, 2011 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Question: Romano-Egyptian coins

    Yes, the tetradrachms were generally all minted at the Seleucia on the Tigris mint for use in the Mesopotamia region. The drachms (almost all of...
    Post by: Eyestrain, Jun 19, 2011 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Question: Romano-Egyptian coins

    Two more ancient cultures that dated their coins: The Bosporan Kingdom put years on their reverses, along with the current Roman Emperor. The...
    Post by: Eyestrain, Jun 19, 2011 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Question: Romano-Egyptian coins

    A) Roman Imperial coins (particularly of the second and third centuries) often list the number of years emperors held certain offices, which ends...
    Post by: Eyestrain, Jun 19, 2011 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    This was thrown at me from a car, in Las Vegas, NV. What is it? A COIN?

    The last time a question like this came up here, it was a Constantinian bronze discovered in a used car. Now, apparently, we have rich guys...
    Post by: Eyestrain, Jun 9, 2011 in forum: World Coins