While I cannot authenticate the coin, the edge looks normal to me. A casting seam would be consistent around the entire edge, unless removed by...
@rrdenarius you are a lucky guy. I had intended to bid on that overstrike but forgot to enter my bid before bedtime the night before the auction!...
To be honest, I took this thread as an attack on Richard's company. How else should someone interpret a customer service complaint broadcast on a...
Dr. Saslow is still around, to my knowledge. Last year, he set-up at an East Coast show that I regularly attend. I've never bought a coin from...
When I was a teenager, my friends and I all collected something - coins, comic books, baseball cards, stamps - and often with an edge of...
I've habitually delayed focus on early symbol denarii in my Roman Republican collecting to such an extent that it is now a glaring deficiency in...
I agree with @maridvnvm on this symbol pair! Same symbols, different dies. The very minor differences with the obverse symbols appear stylistic...
New info added above.
I agree that the symbols on the second coin in your post is a perfect match to Crawford symbol pair 11. However, the symbols on the first coin...
Are you certain those symbols are the same? They seem a bit different to me - in more than just a stylistic way. On reverse, for instance, one...
Sorry Bert, but you are entirely incorrect with respect to this coin. The OP coin was struck in Rome, circa 79 BCE, thus there is certainly no...
I'm not sure I completely agree with this, because there are many symbol collectors out there who bid like mad on ordinary VF coins that have an...
Amazing coin, which I later drooled-over like a bulldog when Phil showed it to me in person. I was not one of the arm twisters. My mutt, by...
I've deleted my initial guess of what the symbols depict, because I'm really uncertain!
It is Crawford symbol pair 208 (Plate LXVII). The Crawford symbols are just numbered drawings, not actually identified.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] @Jay GT4 above are text and plate from Peus 330 for your coin. I hope this helps!
Attractive example, Jay. Congratulations! As @red_spork indicated, the coins sold as "RBW duplicates" are the coins that didn't make it into...
I'm no expert, but I believe the bird within your inscriptions is important. Different mints/issues used different "stops" as these symbols are...
This coin was a last minute scratch off my bid list for no good reason but budget. I'm glad it found an excellent home. Congratulations on this...
Very wise, in my opinion, and a very elegant solution. I lived through this difficulty when my wife's father passed. He was a serious collector...
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