I can't go that far. There were several coins that I did not like the look of but most carried a line in the description 'smoothing and tooling'....
Sybaris AR nomos bull / incuse bull (NOT a brockage) [ATTACH] Next: incuse but not a square
OK, why would anyone post this Alexander here? A century after the OP coin (this is 213/2 BC or year 6) Phaselis was producing Alexander coins...
Like JA said: GREAT fractional! :wideyed: I would have jumped on that coin as well. Am I the only one that wonders if there was a poliical...
Just curious: Under what circumstances did you buy this coin? It is, as Ken put it, not a very good one. If genuine, a coin with this lack of...
My Geta is better than your Geta. :pompous: [ATTACH]
Ides and I are very, very different in what and how we collect but I am regularly amazed on how often I agree with his posted opinions. I think we...
Mine has the mintmark just left of Victory's feet exactly where yours has a squiggle that I would have taken (only from the photo) as a remnant of...
http://ak.cngcoins.com/level3.asp?CurPage=31&CurLot=623 The Geta is also ex AK collection Triton XX January 2017.
I have never been able to understand the large number of posts we get here on the ancient forum from people that have absolutely no interest in...
Quite frequently at least later when there were more marked officinae coins. This was a relatively new idea in the middle of the third century....
Rome mint. All Alexandria mint denarii use the obverse legend used at Rome in 193. None have an IMP date. I have not seen a Septimius mint...
It is a lovely coin. Just a couple things: The mint is Siscia (not Sescia). The catalog reference is correct at RIC 32a but it might be good to...
Most don't. What is there besides A?
Those starting to feel comfortable with the CON question are invited to my page http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/idric.html but it...
In all honesty, many of the problems in IDing these come from failure to read every letter. Constantius lacks an N before -us while Latin for...
I see a full length portrait rather than a head and no 'Next' topic.
Very good! The man issued coins for forty years from 15 mints. Variety is to be expected.
If you sent it off and Mr. Sear said it was genuine but tooled, would you want the coin at the price? There are levels of 'real' and 'fake'. It...
Sorry but you said Gupta first. We need to start trying to post these so they are possible for someone to post other than a coin like the last...
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