SPAIN, Julia Traducta. Augustus. 27 BC - 14 BC. OBV: Augustus bust right. REV: IVLIA / TRAD within oak wreath. This one and all of these coins have been attributed by the dealer. They are on the way here in the mail soon. I ordered them last night. I haven't tried to attribute to a catalog ID as of yet. Spain, Corduba AE Semis. OBV: Bust of Venus REV: Winged Eros This coin and the next one that follows are two that I received to replace one coin that I ordered that was already sold, unfortunately. Spain, Castulo AE Semis OBV: Male bust right REV: Bull under crescent I don't know much about these coins yet but this is me kind of taking a break from trying to get as many Roman emperors as I can get.
Neat => sweet new pickups, Daryl ... Ummm, curious? => these coins look like they may be lil' wee fellas (what are the sizes of these interesting new additions?)
Yes, they are Semis which means they are under 20mm and about 2-3g. This dealer doesn't measure his coins but I certainly will when I receive.
Your last two look a lot smaller than semisses. We will be interested in the measurements. Castulo, half units?, 4.1g and 7.6g, from different dealers but both called the same thing. I do not know. Gades AE27 11.5g
Here is one I have identified as a Semis: IBERIAN AE Semis OBVERSE: Young male head right, Phoenician letter before REVERSE: Bull right, crescent above, two Phoenicial letters below. Struck at Castulo Late 1st century BC 15.6mm, 1.8g Burgos 897 Another as a Half Unit: IBERIAN Æ Half Unit OBVERSE: Diademed head right; palm frond to right. REVERSE: Iberian legend KaSTiLO; Bull standing right; crescent above Struck at Castulo Late 2d Century BC 28mm, 7.7g SNG BM Spain 1345 And another as an AE As: IBERIAN AE As OBVERSE: Diademed male head right. REVERSE: Sphinx standing right, raising forepaw; star above paw, letter below Struck at Castulo Early 2d century BC 33mm, 25.3g CNH pg. 332, 9; Burgos 697
We have a lot of copying other ID's by dealers when what we need is a little understanding of the series.
I don't know a great deal about these coins. Mine are all from Castulo. David Sear has some nice ones pictured in his Europe Greek coin book, but doesn't show all the types. I have yet to understand much about them. I like the one from Gades that dougsmit shows. I've been watching for one of those. Two of mine.... One with the bull rev. and CN on both sides. (what does the CN mean?) The other has the boar rev. 23mm, 12.1g 15mm, 4.5g
i like the style of these coins, but only have a few poor examples...here's one with a little hair of the dog.
Nice little coins, gil. Been wanting to expand into pre-Roman Iberian for a while but hasn't happened yet. Been distracted by many other coins! All I have from Spain are a couple provincials, several Visigothics, and a couple high medieval. This seems to be a bit of a problem with this seller, I've noticed. The same thing happened to me. That aside, he doesn't have bad stock.
I just got all these coins in the mail a couple of days ago. Been kind of lazy posting them and their measurements. Spain, Corduba, AE Semis, 2nd Century BC, 3.7g, 18mm OBV: Head of Venus right. REV: Eros standing left. REF: Unknown Castulo, Spain, AE Semis, AE14, 1.3g, 14mm OBV: Male head right. REV: Bull right, crescent above. REF: Unknown That's about all the information I could come up with. If anyone would like to check them out and let me know if these are right.
you took off the dog hair patina?! well, that completely ruined it! looks nice vlaha, feel free to work on any of my poorly photographed coins! the other day I tried to figure out how to do the black background on gimp, and I gave up.
I would do it like this: 1. Cut out a circular area around the coin using the elliptical select (Ctrl x,) 2. Delete layer (should be in the task bar to the right.) 3. Paste layer (Ctrl v) 4. Zoom in and freehand the edges (using the magnifying glass and pen respectably) 5. Right click on the bar to the right, do it under the current layer, a drop down menu should appear, click on create new layer, when the options come up, select white from the "layer fill type". 6. In the same bar click and drag the new layer and place it under the coin layer. 7. Use use the paint bucket to fill in the white layer. 8. Touch up. Or... 1. Zoom in and freehand the edges (using the magnifying glass and pen respectably) 2. Use paint bucket to fill in various aspects of the backround. 3. Touch up. I prefer method one because it makes it combining the obverse/reverse photos less of a pain.
