Yours may be a die match but the Cohen coin appears to be the Gonzaga specimen with eagle countermark. My Cohen is only a #250 for Julia Domna...
My mother was from the Indiana town where the author of Ben Hur lived so I was raised knowing that book and visiting his home/museum. I recall...
I've told the story before but this group has high turnover so someone may enjoy it. I have two similar denarii of Septimius Severus from the...
It is amazing the amount of work put into reproducing this fake including the hole. Imagine the same techniques applied to a nice original....
I remember seeing ancients at the coin department in Gimbels department store. They were overpriced but they were there. In the day when a major...
Hint: relatively fewer of these show the cross in the left hand. It often helps to photograph the coin from the angle placing the undertype...
Despite the votes for Elagabalus, the legends say IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG. Listen to PeteB. [ATTACH]
a sextans: [ATTACH] Next: a different turtle
Congratulations on facing the 'problem' of too many beautiful objects. My answer to the problem is a set of photos on a usb drive running in a...
Santa is a king of Elymais. There is an exhaustive book on these by VanHaaff with major varieties broken down further that I understand but I...
The Antoninus Pius as seems to have the reverse PIETAS AVG. Compare: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2765992 I do not claim to be able...
I could not agree more. eBay is not the place to go to build a world class collection but there are, mixed in with the overpriced garbage and...
[ATTACH] Uneven striking does seem to be common with these.
While the translation may be a bit obtuse, the Aesop quote is good advice. After all he was Greek and should know a lot about Greek coins....
Anything with less than normal mineral content will be better than nothing. I'd try the grocery store stuff. In some places, the water is...
The coin shows Hercules (rather than Mercury) as indicated by the legend HERC DEVSONIENSI. Your has the E quite clear as opposed to mine lacing...
CT has had several tiny coin threads. Certainly the heavy weight of gold/electrum will make them 'smaller' than silver of the same size but there...
When one sells their business name or employs people that do not maintain the reputation built in the last century, the name becomes worthless or...
Thanks, changed above. That's what I get for not looking it up.
I am with this theory as well. The coin is special because of the 'last' status and also because it is one of those 'not quite' anonymous types....
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