Looks like a very crude modern fake I am afraid.
In fact all my Elagabalus Imperial bronzes tend to be poor as is illustrated by the last one I bought. AE As Obv:– IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS...
I have only had one Elegabalus Sestertius and it was this poor PAX AVGVSTI [IMG]
I have bought from sellers using eBay's foreign shipping service and it is fine as it is transparent and the seller buys into iy and the product...
I have been trawling through the HMRC guidelines and whilst coin collections and items of numismatic interest might have been able to be subject...
I am very much a bottom feeder when it comes to collecting. Several areas that I collect are not valued by many and as such I can collect with a...
We have seen the Rome issue of this reverse type for Septimius Severus above but it does occur as a scarcer type from Laodicea-ad-Mare Obv:– L...
Here is another example of this fake:- [IMG]
The coded Ticinum coins are thought to come from two emissions with the coins without the star coming form Emission 9, dated to A.D. 281 and those...
Your Aquileia coin shows a Phrygian cap as seems to be the norm on these seated captive issues. You do get different coins with bare heads and...
There is indeed quite a bit of variability. I seem to see more consistent "long noses" from Alexandria but more variability from Constantinople,...
I did a quick head count and this brought my Constantius II FEL TEMP horsemen from Antioch to 27! I have yet to total up the number of FEL TEMPs...
Well I have had a slow start to the year so far but have finally had a coin arrive that I can share. I was planning not to get distracted by FEL...
I have one made from the Carthwheel 2d pieces. I think it is too big for snuff or pills and thus believe mine to be for hiding more valuable items...
It still looks dark. I tried adjusting the white balanace....[ATTACH]
They were silvered and looked quite pleasing when struck. I used to own this quite nice example which has the VSV mark in exe. which illustrates...
The matching flan shape would indicate a that it is either a cast or the host
Constantius II Arles [IMG] Lugdunum [IMG] Rome [IMG] Siscia [IMG] Thessalonica [IMG] Trier [IMG] Constantius Gallus Siscia [IMG] Magnentius...
I hope that I don't kill the thread by sharing a small selection from my fleet of galleys.... Constans Alexandria [IMG] Antioch [IMG] Aquileia...
I am worried about the Constantinople example by @gsimonel . I bought one from the same die pair that turned out to be a cast fake. With the...
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