That's a very dramatic double-strike. Very nice!
Typos or not, I really appreciate your help with my coin! Thanks Blake!
Thank you @Blake Davis for your attention to this strange coin. Your explanation for the double-strike makes a lot of sense to me.
Thank you for all this additional information, Blake. I do appreciate it. Yes to that - those Cleopatra bronzes are showing up on eBay a lot...
Thank you! My German is pretty much confined to old USA World War II movies( Hände hoch!) And Google Translate, which is sometimes rather creative.
What an interesting coin @The Meat man - I really like find/research stories like this. A while back I found an interesting-looking coin on...
I vote fake - I don't even know what it is supposed to be. Coins like this - flat surfaces, very crude artwork - show up on eBay all the time,...
Nice addition to your collection, @Ryan McVay - and hard to find too. I recently got one of these and didn't find many other examples. Since...
That is a very interesting article - actual archaeological evidence for the bags of coins that people apparently used at that time. But wow, are...
Sorry, Rasiel. I didn't mean to mischaracterize your position. I completely agree with you on this - no individual had the power or resources...
Marsyas Mike answer: I don't know!
Well, I'm no archaeologist (or historian), so I am not sure what is "proved" or not. But in my opinion, it sure seems likely that...
Very interesting coin and write-up, @Parthicus Recently a far-more-common drachm of Orodes II came my way, from the Court Mint at Rhagae (if I'm...
Nice coins @Victor_Clark I recently got my first (and only) FELIX ADVENT type from Carthage, but mine is for Maximian - I used your website for...
Thank you @Blake Davis - I was hoping you'd weigh in on this puzzler.
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