I can't help you out RC, but thanks for posting that BMC - a source I didn't have. Every time I get one of these, I spend an hour or three...
Great countermarks. I really need one of those NASCAR countermarks :woot: Here's Galba on Nero. One of my better ones... [ATTACH] Nero /...
Through sheer chance, I keep getting Constans II folles, and I keep coming back to this thread to figure them out. This should be a...
Great looking coin and great provenance. I just got mine in December, and I'm sorry to say its provenance is: "eBay Dec. 2019." I'm pretty...
A most helpful thread! This front/back thing has confused me for years. Thanks to all for the clarification.
Here's Aeternitas holding the heads (!) of Sol and Luna on a worn denarius of Hadrian. [ATTACH] Hadrian Denarius (119-122...
Terrific write up and coins. So when did minting stop in Nicomedia? These are kind of late, I'd guess - two folles of Heraclius from Nicomedia...
I'm beginning to think I'm a masochist. Found this one in a lot - as so often is the case with countermarks, the countermarks look pretty good...
I really liked the tooling on this - the "artist" went crazy with the pearls until it looks like a snake is coiled around her head. It was on...
Thanks Doug. I oopsed that one - those are indeed laurel ties. You can even see a leaf. This was one of my "year or two ago" attributions, and...
Welcome to the ancient side of things! I found a Marcus Aurelius denarius with Concordia on the reverse and TRP XVI - maybe the same? Doug's...
Nice coins. I have some cheap-o Severans I've picked up lately that I now have an excuse to post: I think this is just cute as a button:...
I believe that top middle one is from Egypt - AH 1293 year 22, which I think comes out to 1898 A.D. I think it is a silver piaster? The others...
An interesting thread. For the past five years or so, after getting back into ancients in a big (but bottom-feeding) way, I find my attitudes...
Welcome back to the Roman Republic, bcuda. I'm pretty sure this is my first RR: September 1987, which seems like a tragically long time ago:...
Hurray for octopuses. Mine's a bit blurry: [ATTACH] Syracuse Æ Tetra Dionysius I (c. 405-367 B.C.) Head of Arethusa left,...
Nice upgrade. I have one of these with the corn ear and the head facing left...and oh boy could it use an upgrade! [ATTACH] Vespasian Denarius...
I am pulling up this thread yet again because I recently got another Seleucid horsehead countermark (but no anchor) on an elephant AE. This is...
Very interesting! This is new information for me and I appreciate your sharing it. It so happens that I have one of those silver "prow"...
The same thought occurred to me, RC. It might actually be mold. The seller did a nice job packaging it for the long trip from Serbia, but...
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