I am seeing a typical copper plated zinc cent with its associated poor plating, and split plate "doubling" which has no added value on LIBERTY and...
Entry Post....on behalf of the next member who posts a quarternotes counterstamped quarter
It is caused by die polishing as they try to maintain and prolong the working life of the die. They are pretty common, not very hard to come...
Also, like weight, there is a mint tolerence allowance of around 25 degrees. Real interest begins when the rotation is 90 degrees or more.
I want it. For all the misery and deaths attributed to Caracalla, he was the man who introduced a new denomination to the Roman currency, the...
It is the compacted grease and debris in the incused part which falls out and is then subsequently struck into the coin wherever it landed.
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And a Happy New Year to you @MeowtheKitty from us and of course Smarty [ATTACH]
Obviously different dies, and bear in mind the mintmarks on working dies were handpunched in the general area. That is why you find different...
It is, as you say, slightly bigger than the original MM, but it is also smaller and wrong shape to be a dropped D from God. Planchet flaw that was...
The mintmark has the same and as the MM was added by hand to the working die, I would class it as machine doubling, IMO
As far as I can ascertain, these antonininanii still had a good proportion of silver in the alloy and is stated as a silver, not silvered,...
Another productive hunt, well done!
As I suspected, very worn and corroded under whatever that thick, hard black stuff was! But there was enough detail left to attribute the coin....
Interesting way to display them. Some very nice examples there, thanks for sharing
Working on the reverse tomorrow although it is very worn and corroded. Looking forward to it, possibly it is Victory with globe and wreath. We...
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Excellent work @Inspector43 I am attempting my first ever cleaning right now. This Gordian III, AR Antoninianus was in a lot I received...
My fav is the 1488 Philip the Fair Half Noble, but it is an overall, stunning display of coinage.
Not something I actively sought but was part of a lot I recieved yesterday. Pretty worn but has the most amazing dark green, shiny patina [ATTACH]
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