Excellent flying critter, whatever it is. I vote bee.
Perhaps the Carthaginian alloys and denominations didn't match with the Republic's coins, necessitating melting rather than overstriking. Edited:...
That sounds very exciting! I hope you find hundreds of great coins :)
It's from Side in Pamphylia. The little pomegranate on the reverse gives it away even if you can't decipher the legend (which reads ΣΙΔΗΤΩΝ)....
Very pretty!
I'd prefer to not have them, but the rest of the coin is very nice and the price was right :).
You just couldn't make up your mind, could you? :D They're all worthy in their own way. The older version of the stater is quite nice--...
A nice Domitian/Minerva denarius is on the list. At the moment all I have of his is a worn but interesting provincial from a large mixed lot. I...
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Ewwwww. I'm going to grab a slice of good ol' 'Murican pizza after work.
What a hot mess! Fabulous :)
Maybe @ValiantKnight will weigh in. He's pretty good with identifying odd bronzes from that general time.
I don't think so. Lapis would make more sense, given the look of that matrix. I said azurite because in the pictures the blue mineral looks...
Hmm, not my area but after checking Helvitica's page on monograms and acsearch.info, I could believe it! Fingers crossed for you :)
Azurite?
Nice one, rrdenarius! The OP coin is about as high-grade as these get.
That could be, but the "too many rules" bit makes me think Forvm instead :D. I do browse Forvm somewhat regularly, primarily just the Fakes...
I too had it on my watch list. You got it for a very good price!!
I see now, thanks. I had already typed my reply while you were posting the size. :) Maybe someone who knows their Byzantines will chime in....
I'm not very good with Byzantines, but the lack of exergual line/mint on the reverse makes me think it is from a later Byzantine emperor. Plus,...
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