If you leave it in that holder, check it frequently as I am almost positive it has PVC in it.
or it never even got silvered...some scenario stopped it from happening.
maybe a fouree core
It's bare headed which means it's a Caesar...and you can make out the obverse legend.
Crispus was in charge...Constans was about 4 years old. The city was renamed in honor of Constantine II, who was born there.
They are different issues...the first is a laureate head only and the second is diademed, draped and cuirassed bust.
it looks like a Honorius GLORIA ROMANORVM with two captives[ATTACH]
Galerius was a bad dude if you were Christian [ATTACH] Galerius A.D. 295-296 26mm 8.6g GAL VAL MAXIMIANVS NOB CAES; laureate head right....
my only Helena [ATTACH] Helena A.D. 318- 319 18mm 3.1g HELENA N F; draped bust right. REV: eight rayed ✶ in laurel wreath. in ex. TSA RIC VII...
here's a rough one-- from the 1833 Mildenhall hoard [ATTACH] Claudius II A.D. 270 Ӕ Antoninianus 21mm 2.9gm IMP CLAVDIVS P F AVG;...
RIC mistakenly describes the reverse as palm in each hand but it is actually a palm in left and laurel in right.
maybe a typo...your coin is RIC Vii Rome 167
it's a diffuser, but I could never get decent enough photos.
I have used the same stand for years but try different lighting with different results. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here's an Ostrogoth eagle [ATTACH] Ostrogoths, Pseudo-Autonomous Æ Nummus (24mm 11.3g 12h). Struck during the reigns of Theodoric and...
here's the 4th DIVUS type from an example that has since been sold [ATTACH] Constantine I posthumous issue A.D. 337- 340 14x15mm 1.5gm DIVO...
here's my example [ATTACH] Diocletian A.D. 291 21x24mm 4.4gm IMP C DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG; radiate and cuirassed bust right PAX AVGGG; Pax stg....
This coin has some interesting details. Lots of little stuff going on and the engraver even included toes on Jupiter's left foot. There is also a...
X over II and an episemon - "The last sign is clearly an episemon, epigraphically employed for S(emis) also." (RIC VII p. 12) Semis...
part of the problem is that the people that are capable of everything that they require are probably already doing their own thing.
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