Many coins of Magnentius are a great deal more barbarous than this. While I agree this should be classed as unofficial I do have trouble knowing...
The S is the officina mark. The obverse legend shows INV (Invictus - undefeated) which is less than the most common. In this grade, that will...
It hurts me that I was unable to express myself clearly enough that someone thought my discussion of the XXI/KA metal alloy marks for Aurelian and...
These come from a few other cities but the three I have are the common ones. Who has the others? Amisos [ATTACH] Amastris [ATTACH] Sinope...
Clean with care. The coin has a scarce obverse legend and a good looking specimen would be a great coin to add to the collection.
That is a very nice specimen lacking only clear faces on Medusa and Perseus. It has an exceptional torso with gushing blood and a clear harpa....
Not all that long ago we had a thread mentioning that recent scholarship has shown the coins to be from Halikarnassos rather than Kindya. I have...
When I was starting out in coin photography I read a great article in Grossbild International Photo Technik, number 4, 1970, on shooting coins...
Who can show a die duplicate of the coin? Actually it would take two die duplicates to establish which coin was tooled if the two showed any...
Caracalla was older and had been named Caesar first. Caracalla was named Augustus when Geta was made Caesar. I would love to know the thought...
You retain hyperlinks when you cut and paste terms from Forvm and I am glad to see new people have taken the time to go there are learn the...
That is a fine portrait and what remains of the reverse is also excellent. The slab was a cheap model so we are left to wonder if the graders...
For anyone interested: Anchialus is a town with Greek name that was considerably changed when Latinized. The second letter is gamma or G but Greek...
UNKNOWN Grade Fair? 30 Description OBV: AVG MA ****C**O[EVCA* *= missing letters REV: AT X* A*E*N This is a provincial of Anchialus Thrace by...
I fail to see how low grade coins are protection since there would be plenty of profit changing high demand G-VG coins into F. We probably look...
Very, very nice!
We have had several threads on countermarked coins which I am sure you have seen. Most were from the Julio Claudians. Ephesus had c/m coins...
Mud includes sand which is harder than any coin metal so no brush is safe to use on a coin with sand on the surface. Rinse off the dirt first. I...
Gordian inherited the type. I have not researched how many rulers issued it. This is my Severus Alexander AE33. [ATTACH]
My view in the 1950's was that it was foolish to pay more than face value for a coin. I collected from circulation and sold/traded duplicates to...
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