Thanks, Bing. I've played around with background replacement software and gotten good results. (Actually, I've found through a lot of...
I took the photo below a couple of weeks ago with a Nikon Coolpix 4500 4.0 mega pixel camera in its macro mode. I shot it outdoors on a sunny day....
Here's one of my wowsers, still fully silvered: [IMG] Maximinus II ("Daia"), A.D. 310-313 Bronze Nummus Antioch mint, A.D. 312 Obv: IMP C GAL VAL...
My pleasure. If you do clean it, via electrolysis or some other way, I think we would in be interested in seeing how it turns out. Good luck.
Not necessarily. The weights dropped at different times at different mints. RIC goes into detail about this, but offhand I don't remember if...
I think it's more the case that the designers of ancient coins tried to predict what our coins would look like. As the OP clearly shows, except...
I don't think it's any big deal. I mean, it's not as if the minters of the Vespasian were especially prescient. Now, if it had "UNITED STATES OF...
306 is probably the correct date. Coins of Constantine were minted at several different mints during this time. One might assume that the London...
It certainly appears to end that way, but there's plenty of space after the N for another letter, so it's also possible that some crud had...
Both owls were listed by the same seller. A quick feedback check at toolhaus.org shows this seller to be an obvious fraud who appears to now be...
Here's a couple of links to get you started. They are old, though. Current consensus is that you should not use salt alone as the solute because...
ValliantKnight, how on Earth were you able to attribute these? I've seen so many of these tiny bronzes, both with and without gibberish...
Is the ΔΠP the date?
Yup. Corrosion. Apparently the different metals were not evenly distributed in the bronze-smelting process and left pockets of unstable...
Your second coin, (like gogili1977's first) has a cross on the helmet. That adds additional interest for many collectors. Mine just has a star:...
I'll add that the horse on the reverse is pretty typical of coins from this area. Notice that there is no rider on the horse.
The market for ancients is weird because it's so specialized. In general, an ancient coin is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it....
Wasn't Lugdunum also producing coins--on and off--during the 1st and 2nd centuries?
If I were forced to guess, I'd say it was from the late 4th - early 5th century. Something like this VIRTVS EXERCITI of Honorius from A.D. 395-401...
Thank you!
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