I think you got a good prize, even if the original target escaped for now! ATB, Aidan.
Brockages are certainly more likely for the smaller coins, as these are more likely to get stuck in the dies, so I doubt many sestertius brockages...
Here's Cr. 487/1 from the same year as the OP's coin - I still need a Cr. 487/2. Obv. CAPITOLINVS - Bare head of bearded Jupiter right; Rev....
I was going to post this for the Gordian coin above and ask for any coin received as a gift as he next coin, but it works here just as well....
Here's Aeneas carrying his father Anchises and the Palladium as they escape from Troy. The coin looks like it might have been in the wars...
Here's my little pony - Carthaginian fifth stater. [IMG] ATB, Aidan.
Here's a little sextans, overstruck on a Carthaginian coin (remnants of horse on obverse). From a lot of three overstruck coins - the seller's...
Congrats! - here's Shane MacGowan singing Victoria: [MEDIA]
Here's a triens with a Meta symbol. Cr. 124/5. [IMG] Next - anything else with a Meta.
On the USPS site, it still says: "Your package is moving within the USPS network and is on track to be delivered to its final destination. It is...
My new pentagram arrived today - ex @red_spork and the late RBW collections. Some very bad photos with a mobile 'phone: [IMG] [IMG] red_spork...
Probably from Carrhae - this or very similar - https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=129742
We haven't had an example of Cr. 35/6 so far (I think): [IMG] [IMG] ATB, Aidan.
I think the stars are more like asterisks - like this Cr. 113/1 (OK, a denarius!) [IMG] Fight, fight :D ATB, Aidan.
This is an ugly but rare Otho duckling - only known from one pair of dies. RIC 2 - Bare head right, IMP OTHO CAESAR AVG TR P / Ceres, CERES AVG....
Ah, yes - I'm the proud new owner of @red_spork's pentagram victoriatus - it's somewhere in the postal system at the moment, I'll post an update...
Here's a very worn Augustus denarius, with Apollo and a lyre on the reverse. RIC 193a. [IMG] Next - another Augustus denarius
Here's Salus on one side and Valetudo (Roman version of Hygeia) on the other. Cr. 442/1a denarius - Manlius Acilius Glabrio moneyer, 49 BC....
Agreed - that's one reason I use the circle template. ATB, Aidan.
Even if you do (well, digital readout) [ATTACH]
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