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With Lanz you have to be aware that they have a very casual approach to their philosophy on tooled coins and also occasionally let slip a...
I used electrolysis, except for the silvered BEATA. However, I do not recommend this as a way to clean coins as it is very easy to destroy a coin....
The VLPP was introduced as part of the new coin reform of A.D. 318 (108 coins struck to the pound). They had circa 4% silver and replaced the IOVI...
Yes, yours is also copying a Constantine I VLPP.
but the whole point of her article was that the 30 pieces of silver was idiomatic and not meant to be taken literally. You should read it, it is...
here's the prototype [ATTACH] Constantine I A.D. 318-19 17x18mm 3.1gm IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG; helmeted, laureate, cuirassed VICTORIAE...
I used to clean coins, but not so much anymore. [ATTACH] Constantine I A.D. 320 20x19mm 3.0gm Obv. CONSTA-NTINVS AVG helmeted and cuirassed...
that example also has a star, so it is actually Thessalonica 228.
Your mintmark looks like palm branch TESB palm branch. I also seem to be able to make out part a star in the lower part of the wreath (maybe)...
Your coin is RIC VIII Trier 243
There is an article “Thirty Pieces of Silver” Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 88, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1968), pp. 186-190 in which...
Yours was from a different mint and, probably most important in this circumstance, not ex-Benito; who a lot of people remember and might want a...
there is always a chance, but it seems more likely it was minted as a special "medallete" marking the occasion of Gratian being raised to emperor....
that's exactly what I called it. :)
Yes, it was in the January 2020 Triton auction, but I won it in the recent Roma.
here are two new additions to my collection [ATTACH] Maximinus II A.D. 308 26mm 6.1g GAL VAL MAXIMINVS NOB CAES; laureate head right. VIRTVS...
Here's a Licinius II coin showing that, after the 1st civil war, he was very briefly renamed after his uncle. [ATTACH] Licinius II A.D. 316-...
You are right, in Latin it is pontifex, I accidentally used English.
It's an abbreviation for his name-- Publius. the legend is his name and titles Publius SEPTimius GETA CAESar PONtiff
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