Great coin - yours is actually pretty heavy at 26 grams for one of these countermark issues. The DV re-values the coin to a dupondius, this being...
Well I really do like it. And if I am correct, it is a very, very interesting type - that reverse is, I think, Mercury, and was issued to...
Interesting and informative thread. I think I do have an "Unknown King" Parthian drachm: [ATTACH] Parthia Drachm Unknown...
Thanks RC. I was just guessing at this point.
Sometimes I think ancient countermark collecting is the Dark Side of the Dark Side. Which is to say I'm trying to attribute a small batch of...
Lovely coins. Here is a very worn Genio Senatus denarius: [ATTACH] Antoninus Pius Denarius (c. 140-143 A.D.) Rome Mint ANTONINVS AVG...
Just lately I've been hitting the bottom-feeder's jackpot on eBay Byzantines. Here is Justinian I and Justin II & Sophia - Constantinople folles....
I've been working through a lot of unattributed countermarked ancients (rather unsuccessfully) and found this one which I thought was kind of...
This was indeed an informative and enjoyable thread. Just to jump in with the AETERNITAS legend on the reverses as mentioned in RC's last post...
Yeah, I'd leave it alone. In my limited experience, that reddish patina seems pretty permanent - which is to say removing it would probably lead...
An antoninianus of Elagabalus was one of the very first ancients I ever bought, May 1987. Tempus fugit. [ATTACH] Elagabalus Antoninianus...
I agree - I was sort of guessing. A die shift looks more plausible. Thank you for the observation! At the same time I bought those, I got this...
Very interesting. Good eye! ;)
My local dealer was showing me his junk bins, which are sorted by price. "There's a big ancient in here," he said, pulling out the $12 bin. I...
My local dealer sometimes throws Byzantines in his junk box - I went shopping on Black Friday and got these three for $4 each: [ATTACH]...
I just discovered I have that OP's RR triga: [ATTACH] Roman Republic Denarius Appius Claudius Pulcher, T. Manlius Mancinus, Q. Urbinus...
Nice coins! I like them all. That Vespasian appears to be RIC 981, bust left, modius, etc. I found this on OCRE:...
Interesting topic and some great coins. Here is a scruffy pair from Antoninus Pius - Genius of the Roman People and Genius of the Senate....
Sallent, those are really, really spectacular prints. That is a wonderful era, when modern scholarship/archaeology was starting to feel its way...
Nice batch of coins, FF02 - I like the breadth of that collection. I like them all, but the Maurice Tiberius follis especially - there is...
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