My other one has a better wrestler but less horse..... Thessaly, Larissa, Drachm Obv:– Youth...
It looks very much like what is left of a falling horseman to me. Looking at the bust style should allow us to identify the mint. I might try later.
My only Larissa coins are the less impressive non-facing bust output. Thessaly, Larissa, Drachm...
I did collect his output for a while some time back. I seem to have done that with a lot of emperors.... Here is an imperial I don't see above......
A brief search seems to show up a couple of other obverse die matches. It seems that the beard has two raised strands that wore early in the die....
As has been said. A die match is not unusual. Flan shapes and other details are different which id a good sign that they are not casts.
I agree. The portrait is lovely and the lack of centering doesn't impact it. The reverse suffers from the lack of centering that occurs on so many...
Here is what I consider a good example of part silvering part lack of silvering making a coin UGLY. Tacitus looks scarred. [IMG] Here the...
There's nothing to say about it.
The longer I stay here the more puzzled I become about what on earth is going on.
I was referring to the reverse type rather than the two specific examples with this bust type. If the type is in question then I am puzzled.
So how do we account for many similar coins on acsearch. This reverse comes with a variety of busts too. Am I missing something?
RIC II 159; BMCRE 162; RSC 377. Many similar examples on acsearch.
The top two coins are cast fakes of one another. The bottom coin comes from different dies and looks good to me. Who has stated that it is fake?...
Roman wall painting of a bird pecking at cherries from Herculaneum. [IMG]
L Papius Denarius Serratus Obv:– Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat skin tied under chin. Behind head, owl Rev:– Gryphon running right; in...
My problem is that I get too easily distracted by other coins. I saw this officinal 15 from a later issue and had to have it. Constantius II -...
Lovely. I love the Antioch style. I would love a good full run of these but am not sure I will have the time, patience or luck in doing so. My...
This coin is so close in style of the portrait it could be by the same engraver as your second coin. [IMG] The later issues of C II are easier...
Some other Gallus FH Constantius Gallus - AE2 Obv:– DN CONSTANTI-VS NOB CAES, Bare, bust draped and cuirassed right Rev:– FEL TEMP REPARATIO,...
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