This Salonina from Ilium, Troas (the site of ancient Troy) neither looks nor feels fake to me, apart from the fact that it has a very obvious seam that runs around almost the entire edge of the coin. It's a lovely piece and from what I can see not very common, so I'm hoping to get some opinions that will help put my concerns about the seam to rest. Thanks! SALONINA AE22 4.96g, 22.2mm TROAS, Ilium, circa 253 - 268 AD Bellinger, Troy, T294; SNG Cop 443 O: CAΛΩNINA CEB, diademed and draped bust right. R: IΛ-IE-ΩN, helmeted and cuirassed bust of Athena right, wearing aegis. Pictures of the edge:
Geez Z-bro, I don't know? (ummm, that probably doesn't help too much, eh?) ... yah, that seam does seem a bit suspicious ... Hey, but on the bright-side, I think that the coin has great eye-appeal ... => good luck
I don't think it's a seam. I think the flan was chamfered on a lathe. The Ptolemaics and Seleucids used this trimming technology extensively, and sometimes you find it on Eastern Roman Provincials.
+1 I hope it tuns out to be normal in this issue as this is a nice looking coin as our little brother said.
I need to read up more about lathing machines. I didn't know they could leave ridges along the edges like that.
I see no signs of casting - the fabric looks good, and I believe the coin is a die match to this one.
In fact, the vast majority of Ptolemaic and Seleucid coins have some sort of chamfered edge, sometimes forming a V shape, sometimes just a slant that results in one side of the coin having a larger surface area than the other... The Romans did not adopt this trimming style in the Imperial coinage, but one finds it on Eastern Provincials from time to time.
I'm not sure if the thickness of my coin (2.2mm) is pertinent to figuring out if it was indeed trimmed on a lathing machine, but it is probably only a fraction as thick as some of these Ptolemaic bronzes and also thinner than many provincial issues.
The size of the flan was not a determining factor to the minters that used this technology. Even my smallest Ptolemaic has a beveled edge...
I don't know what the technical term is for it, but I reeled in a two-for-one here - one Salmonina and one anglerfish... I mean Athenafish .
What we call around here is a "double header" and you diffidently got that. two fish on at the same time..
man, that really looks like a casting seam...but i guess it isn't hu? well, i'm glad, it's an attractive coin Z.
