No, I think the visible legend is SA from left (7h) with a blundered, open-ended A (not unusual).
Looks like Salus, not Pax. Can you decipher any of the exergue letters?
Yes, sorry. Casey suggests that the unmarked coins were produced in London prior to the London mint marks. For timing of the unmarked production...
It would be pretty embarrassing if I couldn't present a couple decent and interesting Carausius coins According to Webb (1908), the unmarked...
I hate to tell you, @rrdenarius , but now they look purple! What color are they in hand?
Here are a couple more . The second is certainly from the "C" mint. The first may be an unmarked "C", but I don't have access to my information...
Here are a few more from my collection, both from London - the second with a rare heroic bust type. I don't have access to measurements etc at the...
@Ardatirion, here is a Rotomagus mint example from my collection, with Tutela reverse. The portrait style of the the Rotomagus coins is very...
Some Frugi relatives from my collection. Denarius (ex Nicolas Collection), As and Semis. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Bumping this to let @dougsmit know that I checked Berger's Kushner-Hannover Museum catalogue and did not find a very good match. I will check RBW...
Anytime a consignment dealer offers to buy outright instead of take on consignment means he/she either has a buyer already lined-up or knows it's...
Don't auction houses do this all the time, so they can later tout "aggregate hammer prices were €3,000,000 against presale estimates of €500,000"?...
@dougsmit, It looks like it might be an overstrike, which is pretty common among RR bronzes. Denomination mark seems to be obscured or off flan,...
It a mark of value, an oddly rendered S or Sigma.
Coincidentally, I have another attractive example of the OP coin currently on it's way to me. I'll post it when I receive it. Meanwhile, this...
I love that cover coin. I didn't vote for it in the Forvm poll, but it's a beautiful coin of exceptional style.
The only U.S. dealer I know that still uses stamps is Kirk Davis. I chuckle whenever I get a package from him, covered in odd denomination stamps!
My only Larissa facing head drachm, purchased 5 or so years ago when I was dabbling in Greek coins and just starting with numismatic photography:...
Victory (Nike) over prow on reverse of an AE As of L. Piso Frugi, Roman Republic, 90 B.C.: [ATTACH]
Red, Nice coin! At NYINC, Victor England told me that Volteia Collection was largely assembled from European dealers in the 1960s-1970s. So, you...
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