Nice! I love them both.
It's Varbanov legend D, AV K Λ CEVHPO. The coin is 2472.
Ugh. Now I've got to look it up. Do you have any idea how tired I am of looking up coins? I think we should all make up our own attributions.
Really great double-strike. Nice find!
Well, I'm just reading the letters on the coin.
Bing, the obverse of your coin actually reads AV K Λ (for Lucius) CEVHPO.
Yeah, which way is up on those crescent-moon-star coins? I see them pictured in all possible orientations.
Nothing earth shattering, but these two little provincials arrived today, Commodus of Philippopolis and Septimius Severus of Nikopolis ad Istrum....
Both scenarios happened often enough in the history of Roman minting. You couldn't exactly email a new emperor's pic.
Yeah, then you loathe it.
There are also some curious issues of Victorinus on which one finds a bust that's a dead-ringer for Marius. Did the engravers have some dies in...
The problem with calculating what sort of bargain you got versus retail depends on where you look. There are a handful of vcoins dealers that...
I would have happily bought that coin for $100 and whistled a happy tune all the way home.
That's a pretty damn big score. I should hope to find busts of Augustus and Tiberius that good someday.
At full retail, between $150 and $200. So somewhere between 90 and 130 GBP.
I've done this, more than once.
An ant of Marius. Now there's something you don't see everyday. Well-done!
Yeah, great pic noob.
I think there's a little too much light on Aurelian's face in that shot. My experience is that light coming directly at a face tends to wash out...
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