Nice score!
Ryro, it is rather ironic to find these serreted denarii as fouree fakes isn't it. I've seen a few of them too. I guess a good counterfeiter will...
Bert Gedin, I can understand your disbelief, however, they look one in the same to me. The planchet defects & the die break between the I & S seem...
Deacon Ray, these serrated bronze coins always puzzled me. Were the serrations cast or actually chiseled by hand? If chiseled by hand, what was...
I like the denarius of Juno wearing a goat skin. The mythology of Juno is extremely complex & her images are greatly varied. Here she is depicted...
[ATTACH] Silver Denarius-Serratus, circa 209-208 BC, Anonymous Sicilian Mint, 19 mm, 4.19 gm. Earlier this year I sold most of my Republican...
tenbobbit, I like the idea of an owl better.
Pishpash, my coin looks like Prieur 891, the way the reverse inscription ends looks the same. Wildwinds has some interesting examples, especially...
Du bist auch.
Not yet.
Nicholas Molinari, that thought crossed my mind too. The wings, large head & eyes, & front facing view similar to early Athenian coins suggests an...
Many years ago I acquired a handsome tetradrachm from Cyrrhestica, Beroea (modern day Aleppo, Syria). The coin is 26 mm in diameter, weighs 14.80...
That's a pretty good fake despite not showing any trace of silver. You have to wonder why anyone would fake such a common coin... :bucktooth:
OK, the negative feedbackers win... :bored:
Thanks for the info.
This thread should be ignored. It was reported earlier.
When the subject of Dionysus comes up the 1st thing that comes to mind is the famous medal created by Paul Manship in 1930, for the Society of...
Oops, I screwed-up again :rolleyes:! The figure on the tetradrachm from Myrina isn't Dionysos, it's Apollo. Duh. I shouldn't make these posts...
Strange as it seems, Dionysos was depicted as a very masculine figure in early Greek coinage as shown in this tetradrachm from Naxos, c. 460 BC....
I've got an example from the same mint & workshop as yours. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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