I have gathered a few Severan period imitatives over the years with an attempt to focus on those copying the eastern issues where possible because...
Looking at the @dougsmit post above I believe that I have an obverse die match to his example copying the Rome mint, VIRT AVG... type. Mine...
Many thanks for that snippet. I have that volume. Some evening reading approaches......
What a lovely example. Mine came with old collector's tags but their origin has been lost. Is anyone aware of any documentation available of the...
I have a collection of some of the more common FEL TEMP REPARATIO types and amongst them is a range of the Galley types. I also have a general...
I have only ever owned one which was a Trier Siliqua..... This coin had a somewhat poor end. I decided to sell it and sent it to a dealer for...
This is the closest that I could find on acsearch https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1534749
I did own three others in the past but I parted with them as they were peripheral to my collecting focus. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
The S-C should be rotated through 90 degrees on the OP coin!
Sorry for the play on words but I have gone crazy again. Instead of maintaining my focus on my collection I have distracted myself again. This...
You are absoltely correct. This first issue took reverses from Florian and re-used them. The portrait remained that of Florian and only the...
In the first Emission of Probus from Lugdunum one of the standard types is as below:- Obv:– IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG, Radiate cuirassed bust right...
Lovely coins. My PIAVVONIVS doesn't seem to be a die match [IMG] but my PIAV seems to be a reverse die match.... [IMG]
Carausius struck coins in the names of Diocletian and Maximianus to legitimise his role as emperor. I have wanted one for years but never pulled...
BSIS - Symbol 2 exe [IMG] field [IMG] DSIS - Symbol 4 field [IMG] DSIS - Symbol 4* field [IMG] ASIS - Symbol 4* [IMG] Martin
Here is a cropped area of the Delta from my original full sized photos. The one above is very reduced in size. It looks like a Delta - I cannot...
Nice coins all. Trier gives such a lot of variety and are stylistically appealing..... Here in another earyish Constantine. RIC VI Trier 770...
I recently bought a mixed lot of coins and amongst then was the following Antoninianus of Carausius. I had originally attributed it as RIC V-2,...
You can get overstrikes where there is no sign of the understrike on the reverse.... Take the following coin for example:- Silver Tetradrachm of...
And in this case I an citing Volume VII. "Bastien, P. Le monnayage de I 'atelier de Lyon, Diocletien et ses coregents avant la reforme monetaire...
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