Interesting coin, Martin. Severus Alexander denarii I have in my small collection vary so much in quality of fabric/workmanship that I have a...
I'm with ff2 - a hot mess, but what a terrific coin. With Byzantines, the messier the better. I like it!
Yeah, I saw the Pomegranate-Side connection when I was looking these up. As I dimly recall, some of the countermarks looked quite a bit like a...
I'll chime in somewhat redundantly because two of them are countermarked - and nicely countermarked at that. The upper right one, as Doug pointed...
Thanks RC. Er, do you have an RPC contact? - I've gone over the site home page, etc. and can't find a thing!
This baffles me too. The RPC description even says: "Reverse design club, handle at bottom" I took my photos both ways because I was confused,...
Thank you for that link, gsimonel - that is very, very helpful. And "tortured" indeed describes my learning curve on this... But I get it now!...
I just got this today in a batch of Byzantine folles. Odd lot. Anyway, I know nothing about these, and have been working on attribution tonight....
I was a kid during the Bicentennial, and recall being pretty disappointed by the whole thing - all the schlocky souvenirs and general incoherence....
A very informative write-up, Sulla80. I think this coin ties in with the theme - I found it in my local dealer's junk box a while back. It has...
Interesting thread. I've been collecting ancients from 1987-c. 1995, 2013+. Throughout that time I've also been collecting (more like...
Welcome to Coin Talk, Jake. I'm afraid I'm not much help with these. It might be an Ottoman Akçe? In any case it does have an interesting...
Nice new acquisitions, Justin. One of life's great pleasures, a mailbox stuffed with new stuff. As for recent acquisitions, here's mine. Do...
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