You are right. It really is 28H, not 27H. The difference in the two is the obverse legend. Each RIC number has four or five obverse bust types and...
@darwin31 , welcome to CoinTalk! Here is a follis of Maximian with a splendid helmet, shield, and spear over far shoulder. [ATTACH] 27-25 mm....
I have been a fan a paper catalogs for decades. I wrote, but am no loner updating, a site on contents of many of the catalogs from major auction...
This is generally regarded as true, but it does not mean that an experienced collector can't tell them apart by portrait alone. The tetarchal...
@Finn235 , your coin is a beauty. Here is one from that issue from the Second Tetrarchy, but for Galerius as Augustus: [ATTACH] Don't let the...
No deal. Get a magnifying glass and look inside the hole. You should see the thin silver foil near the surface and darker copper within. If you...
Yes, it is Maximinus Daia, a.k.a. Maximinus II. The mintmark is •HTΔ• and the legend is GENIO CAESARIS, making it RIC VI Heraclea 36, "c....
I do not claim they were allowed back in circulation. I think most examples we have today are single finds of coins discarded because it was not...
The Second Tetrarchy began May 1, 305, when the Augusti Diocletian and Maximian retired, the Caesars Constantius and Galerius were elevated to...
When fourrés were discovered they were often marked as counterfeit by pounding a hole through them. I suspect that, above in this thread, coins of...
It sounds like you did not get to keep the fibula you found. Is that right? If you could not keep it, did you get any reward?
Wow! That is a beautiful find. How do Treasure Trove laws work in Norway? How does the law balance the interests of the finder, the landowner,...
Here is a long article on metal detecting and Treasure Trove in Scotland: https://www.popsci.com/science/scottish-treasure-found-metal-detector/...
There are Turkoman figural bronze coins not in those two volumes. They would have been in volume 3, which did not appear. I thought it might be...
No. Never has been.
Sadigh Gallery in NYC has long been accused of selling fake antiquities and ancient coins. A CT search on "Sadigh" brings up quite a few posts,...
I was photographing and appreciating my tiny coin: [ATTACH] 5 mm. 0.16 grams. Caria, city of Mylassa. 420-390 BC. Lion's head left. Bird...
Yes.
True. However, then it is not called a fourré. The term does not refer to all types of forgeries that have better silver on the surface (there are...
The answer is "No." Even cliché forgeries are stuck (according the the cited wikipedia article). The usual definition of "fourré" is a coin...
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