I love toning that appears "natural" or "old cabinet," but not rainbow toning on ancients, which seems an artifact of modern storage or chemistry....
It's a Claudius II, 268-279. Quinitillus (270), his younger brother, has about the same profile, but curlier hair.
I agree it is a cast fake. Maybe "fantasy" is a better word, since I don't think it is very close to an original ancient coin.
I get them.
I don't think the blue/green on the Antoninus Pius is bronze disease, but you might wish to clean it up anyway. In my climate with very low...
This "hut" type was issued by Constantius II as well as Constans, but so far all the examples we have seen have been Constans. Will anyone show us...
Thanks for the link, Doug. I downloaded three publications and now I know where I can look up old ANS articles. I already have paper copies of...
MZ asked about portraits of Marcian. When I saw this one at Baldwin's in London in 1983 I thought it was the nicest AE4 of Marcian I had ever...
Failmezger's book says different mints have different types of trees overhanging the hut. Here is one from Constantinople: [ATTACH] 22 mm. 4.71...
Christian symbolism on Roman coins did not appear until 316 or later, a few years after Constantine's vision and the battle of the Milvian bridge....
Genuine original "desert patina" (I call the orange version "black and tan patina") is common on coins of Antioch. A similar patina, sometimes...
Septimius Severus also issued coins with vows for twenty years: [ATTACH] 19 mm. 3.45 grams. Sear 6393. RIC 308 "202-210", BMC 375 "201-210" Hill...
We have seen two obverses much superior to this one: [ATTACH] but this one at least has the statue of Trajan fully on the flan. RIC 292 (says...
Here is another one with a nice c/m head. [ATTACH] AN, thanks for the associated story. Well done!
I agree with TIF about it being a Septimius Severus founder type. It looks provincial, not imperial. By size it might be, for convenience, called...
An excellent coin. It illustrates why I love tetrarchal folles. They are large and available in beautiful shape. And, I'll bet it did not cost a...
#4, the Galeria Valeria, is terrific.
VIRTVS is a characteristic of manly men. I think maridunum's coin is evidence that its personification can be male. It usually is. Without the...
The reason the coin is small is because it was clipped. Silver was trimmed from the edges. Unclipped issues of that type weigh at least 4 grams.
I have educational web sites on ancient Roman coins. Some are for beginners and others for specialists and some in between. I just changed the...
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