Thanks, Curtis. I hadn't heard of this V/B substitution before - is there any linguistic/other explanation why they may have done this ? This...
Then I've also got this ... no need to say where *that* came from Who says you can't polish a turd ?! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here's my oldest artifacts - about 200M yr old (Triassic). [ATTACH] Although I didn't find them myself, these are local finds from the...
The finder displayed the treasure in his house for four years, before eventually handing it over to the authorities. He apparently used the Great...
Correction: It seems the star came first (mintmark ANT), followed by the short-lived eagle (mintmark SMANT), before settling on the captive (SMANT).
Ah! Thanks for putting that in perspective! :)
There's a short bio of him here. He was a curator at the BnF's Cabinet des Medailles for a while....
It's a bit of an unusual choice! I tend to think of Licinius as a bit numismatically uninspired compared to other emperors (e.g. his neighbor...
I was very pleased to receive this coin today, as it's a type I've been wanting for a very long time. It's an interesting transitional type issued...
The photo and description don't match - maybe you posted the wrong photo ? That coin is Maximianus (IMP C M A MAXIMIANVS AVG), from Cyzicus c.293...
Hmmm... I wonder if mine would gain $12,000 in value if I put it in a $45 slab ? [ATTACH]
I just received this one today, and as another "dinner priced" ($66) coin, I'd say it's also a bargain. This is RIC VI Rome 45a from the first...
Mostly. Not sure if the customers are usually real or not, but the episodes are all staged. In reality the owner Rick Harrison (who's actually a...
The only specific reference to hinged dies I could find is this, from an article "ANCIENT METHODS OF COINING" by George F. Hill, from Numismatic...
Have those erasures been done to the dies (convex on coin), or on the coins themselves (gouges/concave on coin) ? The shadows on the first coin...
That piece is from the Victoria & Albert museum in London. They suggest a date range of 400-600AD for it....
I agree. What's also interesting is that while RIC gives the issue mark as '+ | *' (cross in left field, star in right field), that's only true...
Here's Crispus with a blob-top Christogram. This is RIC VII Aquileia 60. Not a thing of beauty, but much rarer with this B4L bust than his normal...
Yes - I think it's more of a production line environment, at least as far as taking photos is concerned. Not sure how much, if any,...
Out of curiosity I searched for "GALBA countermark" on Coin Archives (without paying attention to issuing city), and there are quite a few that...
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