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    (Today's Ancient) Carus with Eagle SECR...

    MODS: Please remove the wildwinds link in the top posting of this thread. It is causing errors because of the non-existent "/bigpic.cgi" addition....
    Post by: Helvetica, Mar 1, 2025 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Septimius Severus provincial of Nicaea depicting Asklepios

    PS There has been one on wildwinds since 2017. as RecGen 333b
    Post by: Helvetica, Oct 25, 2024 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Septimius Severus provincial of Nicaea depicting Asklepios

    I only just noticed this thread and sorry that the thread is almost exactly 4 years old ! Firstly, the N.g. in Mionnet's listing refers to...
    Post by: Helvetica, Oct 25, 2024 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Question for anyone with Sear's BCV

    I am only 3 years late with this... The difference between Sear 2012 and 2013 is that 2013 has the KE ROHQCI around the bust of Christ. I am...
    Post by: Helvetica, Apr 6, 2024 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Late Roman bronzes don't get much better than this

    Seth - Re the first post in this thread: your Gratian is not RIC 45a but RIC 46a. All varieties of RIC 45 (a,b,c etc) have Roma's foot on a prow...
    Post by: Helvetica, Jan 30, 2024 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    What kind of Greek coin is this?

    These appear to be still doing the rounds. I just received an email from someone in Holland who bought one, presuming it was genuine. The odd...
    Post by: Helvetica, Feb 5, 2023 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    weight of a Julia Mamaea denarius

    CoinArchivesPro list a number of very light Julia Mamaea denarii - these are some examples of RIC 332 types: (Most were under 3.2 g, the heaviest...
    Post by: Helvetica, Jan 22, 2023 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    What does the Lamda stand for

    In his supplement to the "Dated Coins of Antiquity", Edward Cohen writes (he's talking about the Tyre Shekels here, but the explanation of the...
    Post by: Helvetica, Sep 29, 2021 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Roma/Constantinople-Two Soldier Hybrids

    In another work, I can't remember who it was written by, but it was someone of great repute, I read that these were not hybrids or mules, but...
    Post by: Helvetica, Sep 29, 2021 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Another reason not to purchase from ebay

    Be very very wary of buying ancient coins or "old French" coins from China. Several years ago a Chinese company sent me an email asking whether I...
    Post by: Helvetica, Sep 29, 2021 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Unable to ID - Greek, Palymra? AE10 Coin w/Lion

    It isn't from Palmyra. By pure coincidence I was looking at dozens of images in various books and pdfs of coins of Palmyra all day yesterday. As...
    Post by: Helvetica, Sep 29, 2021 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Künker Auction surpise

    I have a feeling that some of Künker's customers are not coin collectors per se, but who buy coins as investments. If they are not experienced,...
    Post by: Helvetica, Sep 29, 2021 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Search Tools

    www.archive.org Free access and official. All the Imhoof books and articles, most of the BMC Greece volumes, three or four of the BMCRE (Roman...
    Post by: Helvetica, Jul 12, 2021 in forum: Miscellaneous
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    Database for Asia Minor coins

    Hi everyone. As cmezner has written, the old Isegrim is not working any more and so, because not everyone was happy with the new style on gcam,...
    Post by: Helvetica, Jul 12, 2021 in forum: Ancient Coins
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    Cleaning advice requested

    The chemical formula for the Nat. Hexa is NaPO3. If you have a real chemist shop near you, you could ask them to make you a small batch to test....
    Post by: Helvetica, Oct 25, 2020 in forum: Ancient Coins