I see enough of a trace of it to say it is there. Small flans are the normal situation for these. I had to have the one below because of the...
Mine is the full length version showing two boys more slender than I think of from the Rome mint coins. As with too many of these, the small flan...
You should be really pleased with such a nice coin with pleasing surfaces.
If I were to want to follow up here, I would start with Septimius Severus from Stobi. Why? The portrait looks like a 3 prong beard Septimius...
Before everyone rushes out and buys a thousand "unrecognizable black blobs" we need to know how many lesser coins we have to expect before another...
You have violated the 'rules' we have advised here many times. You ask us to say from photos whether a coin is genuine or not. This is never...
Help me with the date. 1286 AH? I type too slow. Thanks for answering my question before I asked it.
In the last FSR sale, I bid on a coin that went for several times my bid (no surprize there). Frank on occasion has several of a coin but only...
Reflectors can be too reflective and look unnatural. Try using a gray card rather than white. I might try raising the light angle a bit so it is...
Many Greeks fit this requirement. This is an Aigina AR stater.[ATTACH] Next: no letters, no animals just a figure of some type
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/78874 I have seen a few of these but know nothing and have never owned one. Thank you for sharing...
Congratulations. This brings up a question. I know there were several young boys who appeared on coins and a few babies that appeared on...
Not what you had in mind, I'll guess. Rhoemetalkes, Bosporus 131-153 AD AE27 (48 nummi) /shield, spear, helmet, ax, sword, horsehead [ATTACH]...
This one matches yours except for one letter but will serve to compare letter for letter. Each die was cut individually so they vary more than...
I was not aware of this pig of the legend being on coins other than Antoninus Pius' (or did you mean 'any' pig?). The Flavian pigs are considered...
There is some double strike reverse left that obscures what the emperor is holding. I don't have a match but the choices are your phoenix and a...
Perhaps there is something in the soil or alloy that makes coins of Odessos a lighter green??? Septimius Severus (posthumous) AE24 Odessos /...
A less than common Aequitas is the Septimius Severus from Alexandria mint with legend AEQVITAS II. One theory suggests that the II refers to...
Bing showed the Septimius Severus from 'Emesa'. This is the Julia Domna. [ATTACH] Some dies of these show a centration dot used to lay out the...
My only sestertius is not as nice as any of my minor bronzes but it is a sestertius. [ATTACH] What I want is the sestertius of the Janus Temple...
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