Nice chop marked Pillar Dollar! Both are true :D They minted tons of these over the years, and many were melted
Welcome back Steve!
How's your vacation?
I was searching and found this: http://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-western-mints-of-claudius.213506/ Yours has a similar look to the Spanish...
It is unusual to see a fake Sassanid coin like this one... Definitely a cast fake...
This is a page on Tooled coins, on Forvm: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=53363.0
This one is the origin of Britannia (I think...): http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=153099
Great Addition VK!
One of the few time periods of India that I am not interested in... Me, almost every time I buy a coin!
If you write it out you may find that you can read it (or someone else can)...
Show them this when you do that: http://www.sageventure.com/coins/version4.html
Steve is on vacation. For me, my tablet powered off, closing my tabs... While I was about to respond this thread :oops: Great...
Awesome coin!
IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS P F AVG Thread for this coin is here: http://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-gallienus-antoninianus.234743/
Nice Coin! I also just picked up my first Antoninianus, although mine is billon [IMG]
Awesome coin Anoob!
It's Windchild, no space ;) Someone gave me an appreciation for Colonials ;)
The reason why is that they were the 'conquerors' of Britain, with Septimus Severus having Victoriae Brit coinage issues.
I know that there are issues with BRIT in the legend on coins of Septimus Severus, Geta and Caracalla (as shown below). I am wondering if any of...
If I can get it from the local uni, I will have an online version :D (only good thing about that is it is permanent)
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