Are you certain about this? It looks like there might be a mint mark on your coin that is obscured but the shadow from your thumb in the photo....
Constantine did the same. Here's one marked (according to Victor Clark) as 12 denarii, or 1/2 nummi: [IMG] Rome mint, A.D. 312-313 RIC 356 Obv: FL...
I did that once, too, at a coin show in Ottawa. It was back when I first started focusing on Constantine I. I saw a nice, large coin with a...
There are no coins from the reign of King Tut, but there are coins of Cleopatra: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/egypt/cleopatra_VII/t.html
So even though it was cheap, it's still pretty old. 15th or 16th century seems pretty exciting to me.
Is it a jeton?
I don't think the one on the right is a coin. There appears to be two holes on opposite side of it (top and bottom in the photo). I think it might...
I don't know much about these coins, but yours is heavier than the one in my collection: [IMG] Silver Denarius Traveling legionary mint Obv: ANT...
Not sure if this is relevant, but FYI, this message appeared recently on the Moneta_L discussion group: Dear Sir/Madam Sadly Charles [Ancieny...
Sometimes the consignor sets a minimum price that they will accept, so that will be the opening bid.
Bid what the coin is worth to you.
I can't tell what the mint is from the photo, but it looks like a typical silvered bronze issue. These were mostly bronze coins that contained a...
It's possible that it is a fouree siliqua, that is, an anceint, plated counterfeit of a silver coin. What's the reverse look like?
What do you mean by "tubes"? Tube-shaped light bulbs?
I'd be very surprised to find any ancient coin that wasn't harshly cleaned at some point in its 2,000-year history. I mean, what are the chances...
After looking at it again I can now see that the coin didn't rotate, it just shifted over a bit between strikes.
They probably just whacked it twice. Maybe they didn't get a satisfying whack the first time. It's possible that the coin rattled a bit and...
I should add, though, that I would never positively ID a coin based on a guess like that. I'd just label it something like "Roman AE As, 1st-2nd...
Yep. Fat head, small neck. Vespasian was the first thing to come to my mind, too.
Could easily be double struck. Unlike modern coins, double strikes are quite common on ancients.
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