Sorry Ras, but I don't buy that. If it cuts into the coin metal it's no longer just smoothing. Then it crosses over into tooling which alters...
Not quite. Smoothing is the removal of accretions, including substances which may have chemically bonded with coin material at the surface....
Collectors of modern coins don't tolerate any tampering with coin surfaces, and therein lies the rub, so to speak. Far and away the majority of...
In what sense "tooled?" For example, among collectors of ancients "tooling" has long been associated with the fraudulent alteration of a design to...
Do you have a pic or even a hand drawn graphic to give us some idea of what you mean? Three stars in a row?
Here is my siliqua for Vetranio: [ATTACH] It was a kick getting it (very reasonably at the time) but the Vetranio item I covet to this day is a...
I have a couple of examples of this error type in my collection. Not sure how rare they are though. They didn't cost much in comparison to...
I think you may be misreading the Roman numeral. Consider XXIIII. Or, as RC said, XXI VI run together as a single string.
Ah, gee Martin, I dunno, that pretty much sums up my whole collection. Actually, I just added an item that fits. I sold off most of my Roman...
Very nice example St... Finn235 In 2013 Reid Goldsborough put this up, which is a great intro and reference point (@TIF - look again, later...
And IF you buy into a particular interpretive notion...
According to Michael Grant (The Roman Emperors, 1985) Valerian I elevated his oldest grandson, Valerian II, to Caesar "early in 256." His...
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