Top notch Top Cat!
Fantastic Chris
My less than perfect examples (actually, my ONLY examples) [ATTACH] CONSTANS AE3 OBVERSE: CONSTANS P F AVG - Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust...
He's had a lot of effect on me, more than the speech. Every time I see one of his NP, I start looking for something similar (in my price range of...
Yeah, the base setting is at 400. I use that for single sided images. But when I put both sides together, I change the size to 800. Thusly:...
Hey TC, what do you think about reducing the size of the image. One image takes up my whole screen. I just re-sized your last image using JPEG...
And my only FH of Julian from Lyons [ATTACH] JULIAN II AE3 OBVERSE: FL C L IVLIANVS NOB C, bare-headed, draped & cuirassed bust right, M behind...
That's what I was saying all along. It's got to be Delta and a zigzag.
I'm sorry. I was saying in the references I can only find a B and a Delta SIS Zigzag. I can find the reference JA was referring.
I see a B and a Delta SIS Zigzag, but not a "A"
The only thing I have found is a mintmark "ASIS zigzag", RIC 370
Perhaps you will get the Ancients bug now. Welcome.
Very interesting write-up. Thanks to you (and your mother) for sharing. BTW, that is a gorgeous coin you selected for your example.
No, I was wrong, Galerius RIC VI Siscia 81b. Listed as common. I found it looking through Helvetica's at...
I'm thinking Trier RIC VI 665b, but let me check one more place.
Try Maximinus II
Man that is ugly JA (ugly in a good way, you know what I mean).
That's a shame for this coin to have survived all this time just to be electrocuted by some idiot (I mean that in a loving way). It should way...
I don't see anything to make me think it's not authentic. The legends may have been tooled to make them stand out, but even that is questionable....
None of your coins will ever be boring Doug. I enjoy looking at them.
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