Probably RFQ, Rome, fourth officina.
Common coins can often be more interesting than they appear at first sight. Case in point: your coin has a botched obverse legend, which probably...
Thanks Chris. It did not come cheap, but I consider it worth every penny.
My only republic bronze is this Spanish mint version of a Saturn/Prow semis, but I love the coin for obvious reasons. I think okidoki has a die...
Try and keep up boys. ;)
We'll wait to push you off the plane till we get over the Bay of Bengal. We're nice like that.
You can't hijack a thread on CT ancients, lol. We're the most tangential crowd on the internet. Welcome to the forum!
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I for one like to collect Judaean city coins. Here are two of Ako-Ptolemais, an issue during the Seleucid era, and a bronze of Hadrian. They're...
Great oki! I didn't know there was a Telesphoros countermark.
Aaaand, that would be my source. I remember reading that thread some time ago. I just wonder why coins of Trier would have been used as patterns...
Uhh..well, it's one of those factoids I remember reading about some years back. I can't quote the source off the top of my head, but it may come...
Hey, thanks AN! That gives me my reading for the day.
That is the widely-accepted interpretation of the issues with two different mint marks.
Here's an exceedingly rare issue of Diadumenian from Deultum. Telesphoros was likely a Celtic god adopted into the Roman pantheon as the son of...
Yeah, that would be a perfect book to put together your checklist. You've got one, only 999 left to go. :)
Did the Franks really have no armor at all?
Definitely ex-jewelry, but a great coin, and certainly a keeper!
I've seen many a rough RR Janus. Yours is indeed sweet. I would love to own that coin. Great find!
Vcoins, Jerry Walker, Bookseller. It would seem he's having a sale on everything.
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