Hey Dan, the tag is mine, and going through my records, I seem to have made a mistake. Here is the corrected attribution... Obv.: Facing female...
Yeah, I love that coin. It's the textbook example of charming little obol.
King Apollodotus, Savior.
Very nice! Superb detail.
You won! Great, intriguing piece, and many thanks for the background info.
A dollar?
He's keeping the place afloat. They need to give Ardy a raise. :)
Reminds of something another collector said: which coins are hot? The ones I want to buy. Which coins are cold? The ones I want to sell. :(
Certain varieties of the "eyes to heaven" types have these plain headband diadems. Even so, it looks smoothed.
I've had exactly the same issue at shows - in fact, I've come home with coins that had problems I wasn't aware of, simply because I couldn't see...
lol, or maybe Shaqilat... [ATTACH]
Well in that case, I summoned an attribution daemon with my pentagram drachm... [ATTACH]
Thanks, but there's no virtuosity involved if you've seen the coin before. That's all it was.
The style of the busts looks right for Pergamon. There are other cities that issued Roma/Senate types, but the styles are distinctly different.
Mysia, Pergamon, pseudo-autonomous, c. AD 40-60, bust of Roma, bust of Senate.
Superb coin, panzerman! The solution to a lack of coins is quite simple: buy more coins. :)
As rough as it is, one of the great features of this coin is that you can clearly read DID SEV-ER IVLIAN on the obverse. Those four generals...
Just a little old something I had lying around. Didius Julianus was the man that bought the throne from the Praetorian Guard after the murder of...
I only got to talk to him briefly - I was one of many at his table - but he was quite congenial and friendly.
Cool. :cool: The coin certainly doesn't look cast in either image.
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