Yes, fake. Some type of fantasy token.
I wish!! Perhaps you have me confused with @AncientJoe, who used to own one (see below). He sold it! Willingly!! (clearly he's not quite right...
BM has a few more online. I didn't look to see if any of them have the same magistrate as your friend's coin....
Yes, I think that's it. Here's a similar coin on acsearch and it even has the same countermarks:...
Thrace, Byzantium? Obverse is Demeter (or other veiled female)? A quick check of Wildwinds and CNG shows no matches so maybe I'm wrong, or maybe...
There are a couple of negatives which have held me back from paper envelopes. I've purchased many old-collection coins which were in paper...
I'll second the suggestion for you to acquire a Perseus with decapitated Medusa coin :). They were struck by a few cities. Here are two from...
I have considered paper many times and might switch at some point. In addition to the advantages you listed, envelopes can be opened and closed...
Oh yeah, thanks for the reminder, Noob and Doug! Here's Orontes in his curtain call, on tatty little bronzes from the Byzantine emperor Justin I...
Good pick up! It's Justin I. Guess we didn't look closely at his coin :oops:.
Digital data degrades. Digital is not permanent.
It seemed so high tech back then! :oops:
The pace of tech extinction has really escalated in my lifetime! Vinyl (33 1/3 rpm, 45 rpm, and the already obsolete 78 rpm), followed by 8 track...
Here's a nonspecific non-MFB "river god" on a coin of Nikopolis ad Istrum. That city was located at the junction of two rivers, so the...
There are some "architectural" provincials from Heliopolis which show sophisticated aerial renderings of a temple. I don't have one :( Here's an...
Nahapana appears to be related to Belwit the Flat (Zorkmid coins) :D [IMG]
That last one is delightfully wacky!
I never really meshed with electric, although long ago I had a really nice Les Paul Silverburst, straight from a NAMM show, ~1981. Man, that...
Haha, but yes there was some record-breaking teenage foolishness going on that weekend :D. I'm lucky to have survived with a few brain cells...
Being a female and guitar player, naturally I loved Heart back in the 1970s. I only saw them live at a festival-style show, Texxas Jam 1979....
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