Bashing around the edges is a way of concealing a casting seam so when we consider the other coins in the group, I'd not expect it to be genuine....
http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/coincombo the above was written for Photoshop Elements but the techniques work for many editors.
That is a problem I have. If I want it, I have trouble imagining a collector that would be able to let it go. Dealers are a different matter...
I was told once that modern fakes of these are common but I don't have the whole story on this and don't know if it is the whole coin or just the...
I believe I benefit from more people being interested in the coins I collect (mostly ancients). Yes, my activities in the last 16 years have...
I believe it is surface damage on the coin not die but am not sure that this one is a die match so it proves nothing. It does show the shield...
For Windchild: This one is a terrible shame since the legend you might like is off the flan at the bottom of the reverse and it is a fourree but...
My Philip sestertii range from 21.6g to 11.7g. The light ones are late in the reign and what you might call dumpy. The heavy tend to be rounder...
[ATTACH][ATTACH] Here is the problem with Theodora. Here coins came during a time of junky little flans. Most are like my two where you choose...
Don't expect much. There is the one type from several mints and that's all. Her coins are posthumous honoring a link of the current rulers to...
Thanks! Coins and contacts with fellow collectors bring education to us all.
Do we have documentary evidence as to how the arena surplus exotic animals were 'recycled'? I could imagine the meat of something like a hippo...
[ATTACH][ATTACH] I must add my Bride of My Favorite Coin (the Groom on my page). http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/bride.html But I will...
Antoniniani
For the record, the type also comes in silver antoniniani but the artwork on the sestertius is usually better (and the bronze price is higher,...
Constantius I (second wife - a political marriage, she was a (step?) daughter of Maximianus) The coins were issued after the death of Helena....
4 3 1 2 5 - not to say 5 is a dog but I just like the others better
The only good trade is one where both parties think they got the best end of the deal. None of us agree fully on which coin is great and which is...
310 is much more likely to be the common fake combining a Lucius Verus obverse with a Syracuse dekadrachm copy reverse. They are poor style large...
I prefer the theory that the Poemenius series Chi-Rho for Constantius II were issued briefly following the retaking of that mint before someone...
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