Great coin, and your new picture is much better!
It's not uncommon to lose lettering on a brokage strike as the lettering is in lower relief. Ken is too generous with his grade for artistic...
From the annals of the lazy counterfeiter. Fake a brokage and you only have to fake half a coin.
A couple of factoids about the Temple of Janus types. We are not certain where the temple actually existed in Rome - different contemporary...
A truly magnificent coin! The OP coin is RIC I 267 (p. 166), with obverse 46G, reverse "Terra" door right. But none of the coins in this group...
I'd post a crappy coin to go along with it, but I don't have any crappy coins. :)
He doesn't look angry compared to the other busts of the period, which are rather typically grumpy and stern. When I get a chance, I'll scan the...
That song tickled my funny bone. The contrast between what the band can do and what he can do is ludicrous, lol. I've got one for you. Click at...
It's a wonderful coin indeed. An additional reference is Prieur 123. Although the plate coin in Prieur is not a die match to yours, it's clearly...
RIC clumps all the officinae under one number for these. So it's going to be 49 whether the officina is A or B or Z or whatever.
The two-standard types came earlier, one-standard later. They are different coins. I don't know whether your example is rare or not, but you need...
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There were of course coins struck during Dante's lifetime, but none that commemorated him, that I know of. I find it highly unlikely that such a...
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Easy, but fun!
I've always thought of her as the personification of the republic. She wears a radiate crown, which is indicative of royalty among the Romans - so...
I don't see anything wrong with your coin, Pellinore, except that it's a bit over-cleaned.
$100 is more than sufficient to buy a high-grade common denarius of any of the emperors or empresses of the Severan dynasty, or an antoninianus of...
Edited: Oops, TIF is making you work for it.
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