Wonderful article and coins! I only have one camel on a coin of Trajan. Were it not for this coin I'd be over a hump as far as camels are...
Perhaps. I think that the primary reason for their existence was to let other merchants, bankers and other individuals that by placing a...
Chopmarks are punched into the coin. They are part of a practice that goes back thousands of years, as a main method of verifying that a coin...
Sometimes coins are found with letters in the legend or elsewhere transposed, switched in position to the next letter. This coin however is a...
Chopmarks are countermarks administered with very small dies by hammering the merchant's mark into the coin. The types of chopmarks vary from...
From today's Guardian:...
This very dark salvaged cob came to me by that vast market for coins, the wild west so to speak, eBay, last month. As these coins go it is pretty...
The metal that was used in Rome in imperial times was orichalcum, what we call brass, which is composed of a combination of copper and zinc....
I really like the depiction of Asclepius on the reverse, and the portrait of Caracalla, in what appears to be in one of his more mellow moods, is...
I wouldn't go much further cleaning this coin. Additional cleaning would eliminate more of the dark deposit, but it will also reduce contrast....
Your coin is the same Gilboy type as mine, M-8-39. He lists varieties for this date, including the presence of an arch under the crown above the...
Unfortunately the reference book on pillar coinage by Frank F. Gilboy was a limited edition of 500, printed in 1999 in Canada. I don't know of...
That a very nice coin! In Gilboy, your coin is M-8-46.
That's a nice pillar 8! The large clear chopmark gives the coin added character. I'm not really sure that there's an overdate. The reason is...
Oops! You're right. I need to pay more attention to these legends!
For all of the wealth that was flowing into Spain from her colonial mints, that wealth was not well spent, in terms of developing the Spanish...
Nice coins! The As has a lovely patina. This is my only example. Hadrian, AE As, 125-128 AD, Lyre reverse. RIC II 688 Rome 9.00 grams [ATTACH]
A nice one, Bing. Here's a new acquisition. Claudius II Gothicus, silvered antoninianus, 268-270 AD, Rome. RIC 54 2.65 grams Obverse: IMP...
This thread has been stalled for several days. Unfortunately I don't have a pig, at least on a coin. How about a coin with a mythical creature...
Nice coin - very well centered. I only have one coin with Helios as the main subject, a tetradrachm of Rhodes, circa 229-205 BC, Ameinias,...
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