No problem. For this and similar types see here:...
That really needs cleaning to remove the oxide. Try a liquid silver cleaner like Tarnoff.
Curious. The design copies that of the Latin Type A billon trachy SB 2021 (as the writeup basically says), with the legend roughly DECPiTC, but...
So I took Diomedes' new picture of the obverse, reduced the colour saturation to zero, and banged the contrast up to maximum et voila - pure...
The trouble is that on the original Lodge coin the silver fills the corrosion pits. And there is no sign of any corrosion products, or of any wear...
More likely re-silvered - you can see traces of corrosion under the silver.
Actually it seems the earliest Ionian coins weren't even striated. See here:...
Is it silver? Ross G.
I'd ask the seller to check the weight (and measure it to two decimal places). Ross G.
Thanks for that - it seems Crawford didn't like either the Cahn/Athens coin or the BM coin. But he doesn't seem to give any actual reasons. Ross G.
There is also the original British Museum coin (below - ex King George III). This is generally regarded as a fake - note that it's weight (7.36 g)...
I'm surprised copper doesn't show. Ross G.
For the complete lowdown on the Croesids see here: The Coins of Croesus (glebecoins.org) Ross G.
Krosos coin's website? Ross G.
This is an example of the mysterious coin Dochev Pl. LXI, 2 (Dochev published an example found at Turnovo). This type was discussed some time ago...
I suppose there's a connection but I can't suggest anything definite. Ross G.
I snipped the image from the screen and voila - there is the final DPi on the left, and DHMIT on the right. [ATTACH] Ross G.
See next post. (Is it possible to completely delete a post and start again from scratch while you're still in edit mode?)
@JohnnyC That's a nice example. Here's what I do, to attach a photo. After I click the "Reply" link to reply to a message, there is a resulting...
Here is another example of S.2310 with details of the reverse legends. You can see that the saint is named DHMITPI while the emperor's legend...
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