Too bad that grasshopper wasn't struck juuuust a little lower.
What don't know what Romans called their denominations in the provinces. Sometimes they get described in Imperial terms, as in a dupondius-weight...
It'll recover from the cleaning. If you have an older coin envelope, the type that had sulphur in the paper, put it in that. I save some of those...
I'll have a cheeseburger, nothing fancy. Thanks. Oh, and some curly fries.
Strike striations sounds more hoity toity than flow lines. At the risk of annoying everyone in the thread, could you post really large images?...
That's a better pic. The fabric looks good to me.
Does the surface around the bottom of the bust have bubbles? Or is it spotty toning?
If you absolutely must have grades, I call them both VF, but letter grades are not really important to collectors of ancients. I never give any of...
$45 is good on the Porcius Festus - you've got all the lettering, which is frequently off-flan. Here's mine - your wreath detail is much better....
Eye-appeal on both looks great, no problem with the green, just mineral deposits. Very nice first choices! Welcome aboard.
Nice! Looking at bee counterstamps, I saw quite a few coins from Termessos.
Well, Howgego lists a bee countermark on Roman Provincial issues (365), but I wonder whether it bears any relationship to older Greek marks - it...
Yellow jackets are only annoying if YOU bother them. Flies are always annoying.
That's a link to a FORVM discussion Mikey.
Ok, it can be a bee then. Flies are annoying anyway.
Eh, sorry...I dug the book out and it's not counterstamps, it's Overstruck Greek Coins by David MacDonald. For some reason I had it in my head...
Uh, well. That's a tough one since it depends on so many particulars. If it was my coin, I'd crack it out, clean up the reverse, and offer it in...
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I wish the ancients had put some spiders on their coins. Do they exist? I don't know of any types or counterstamps.
It's not that big really, but it's currently at the bottom of a file drawer and I don't feel like digging it out.
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