Bought in the order shown below. The second not being as nice as the first in terms of some detail but allowing the confirmation of the reverse...
I have a liking for horse/bull types. Here is my Pharkadon. Bull wrestling seems to have bee a right of passage in areas of Thessaly and several...
The "scoop" seems to correspond to where a cutting tool has been used to cut into the coin to determine if it is solid or plated and it has dug...
I have around 20 of the Papius variants. I saw this one but decided to pass on it and save my money for another some day though I have bought far...
I have been staring at your coin and comparing to mine. One minute I think that they are the same die the next I think that they have differences....
Cyprus, 1/4 Piastre , 1901 Obv:- VICTORIA QUEEN, Queen facing left wearing a coronet with a decoration of oak leaves and scrolls; date below....
It was the 1799 half pennies that got me into collecting when I was a youngster. My father was removing the staircase from an old house and found...
As you can see from those wonderful examples from Doug above, there are some fascinating items to be found in these imitations. The third and...
Every now and again I buy a random ancient imitation simply because I find them interesting for some reason. My first purchase was just an...
It won't be in RIC because it isn't Imperial.
I would bet on Caracalla.
A very nice upgrade indeed. His portraits can have quite a large variety of beard length. Yours has a very strong, striking portrait. Loads of eye...
A new coin added to one of sepcialities. Septimius Severus denarius Obv:- L SEPT SEV PE-RET AVG IMP I - I, laureate head right Rev:- FORTVN...
Very nice. I bought some many years ago butgave them away because I wasn't interested in Greeks at that stage. Four nice coins each with it's own...
After the crowbar and pick-axe I have another building related Papius (my father was a builder before he retired). These are tools we still use...
Doug, When discussing this with someone from the BM they said that some symbol sets have a dozen or so known examples and yes there are several...
I can't resist adding something. As a coin type the Lucius Papius Denarius Serratus is not rare. It was produced from multiple matched die pairs....
Constantine II Arles Obv:– CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C, Laureate, cuirassed bust right Rev:– GLORIA EXERCITVS, Two helmeted soldiers standing with...
In order to get a Mars coin recently I bought a batch of GLORIA EXERCITVS - soldier with standards types. I thought it worth showing the batch....
Amongst what look to be genuine low grade bronze are two silvers that are salted in there to draw people in. Well known fakes....
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