The overstrikes came before the coins struck on blank flans. Hoover and Barkay suggest a terminus post quem of the mid 3rd-century BC. My page on...
You can read my pages on these coins here. Click through the rest of the chapter where I differentiate three different styles, catalog a unique...
No reason to panic yet, give it another week. I get packages from all over the world - sometimes they clear customs in a day, sometimes a week,...
Hi Topcat, I got your message. I'm afraid I can't help you. There just isn't enough detail for me to make anything out. The coin Pishpash posted...
Probably off with some other nymph. Which reminds me, I came across this instructive pie chart the other day... [ATTACH]
Very cool coin. So that's it for the legend? She was playing with her ball and fell into the river and died? No reincarnation as a swan or...
We underestimate the ingenuity of ancient peoples, probably because we've achieved so much with recent technologies. My wife calls it...
We refer to them as dimples. The flans were lathe-machined. See this site for more information. Be sure to click through all the pages for a very...
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If I buy coins from forum members or take them on commission, I always include that in the provenance. Not that it's terribly important, but we're...
You're welcome! Don't break your teeth on that potato chip - around these parts we call them hockey pucks or pond skippers. At the top right of...
lol!
Yeah, but you make it look good. :)
Yes, a casting seam. Looks like a gift shop replica. The real thing is thicker, in the neighborhood of 23g
I've always thought is was curious that that long-necked bust varieties occur on the ants of Aurelian and Probus, but not on the coins of the...
I like it! I like the youthful, clean-cut bust and good reverse style, complete legends despite a slight weakness at 3 o'clock on the reverse....
If the lion is centered, they're still quite attractive when worn. At NYINC this year, I looked through a hoard of several hundred. I was...
The fabric and style look perfectly fine to me, dimensions look fine. I'm no expert on these coins, but it looks good to me. I recently had this...
Yeah, that is cool. Yours is the only one I've ever seen.
That's pretty good detail for the price! There aren't many LRB types that reference specific historical events, this being one of them -...
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