It´s an egyptian tetradrachm, you will not find it in RIC.
Really nice addition. I still owe myself one of these. Congrats!
You will keep Diocletian in the middle, since it was struck by Carausius!
Magnetism means nothing to us. No one goes checking which ones sticks, because it tells us nothing (unlike modern coins). If you bought that lot...
Great! I heard about the hoard, but it didn´t have such detail. Thanks for posting!
Yes, if you look at the pictures, they are from april, 2016. It was post here too, not once, but twice:...
This is the "Tomares Hoard" and was found more than a year ago. They even had a sort of pre-exhibition with some of the already cleaned coins to...
Yeah, I still prefer the "before" look.
I copied for my own use a checklist of these volumes from a post here at CT, I can´t find it now, but here is that checklist, hope it is usefull...
Love the way you "frame" your coins...you make them more special than they already are.
They look cast fakes.
fake, not even meant to deceive.
Ditto all the above.
It certainly is an islamic coin, an akce. Perhaps Mehmet II? (I can´t read arabic anymore).
Nice catch! Looks like a Justin II & Sophia follis.
Perhaps I expressed myself in a wrong way, I meant that the mint mark above the bridge could be of some reference to romans (as in a Golden Bridge...
What a beauty! I always look forward to your posts, they are so different. :)
Unlikely, the battle was on the bridge, but the vision was not. (If) It happened the day before, probably at his camp.
Plus, if you read the latin inscription, it starts with: "PIVS SEPTIMVS PONT MAX", that means, Pope Pius VII. So, the milvian bridge was restored...
Search "byzantine Scyphate", you should find a lot about them. They are common, also called "cup coin" because of their shape.
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