Wow! I stand corrected. It is tooled to look like a well used example of a 21st century mint state fantasy (clearly marked copy). Great...
My guess is a tooled 'upgrade' from a completely different reverse. The style of the portrait and the lettering just does not strike me as Roman...
As you might guess, Britannia coins sell better in the UK than in other parts of the Roman world. Just in case you have the urge to spend, there...
A Hadrian in that price bracket would not be a very pretty coin. He is not rare but comes from a time 200 years earlier when coins were either...
This has a good strike and smooth surfaces but enough wear to drop it to VF at best and no trace of the original silver wash the issue had when...
I have long loved this type but it is not an easy coin to find in every way what I want. Bing mentioned that I upgraded but the new one (below)...
Note all have lions: [ATTACH][ATTACH] Two from Julia Domna [ATTACH] Caracalla and Geta from Marcianopolis [ATTACH] Gordian III from Marcianopolis
The face of the king is on the other anepigraphic side. The coin belongs to that king. I'm not sure how they decided who that reverse was but...
[ATTACH] Kamnaskires-Orodes VH 12.3 subtype 1-2A2 e note the dot between anchor and bust [ATTACH] Orodes II VH 13.1 subtype 1-2 none of the...
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