Yes, I have a die match to that one 18x17mm 2.5gm [IMG] and obverse match with close reverse 18x17mm 2.5gm [IMG] another close one, maybe...
No, there were none with a star.
Your coin is 366a. The difference is the ties of the crown. 366a has divergent ties, while 366e has parallel ties, like your second example....
Here is a neat Gallienus I just catalogued. I started with RIC V, but RIC does not have any recorded with S in left field, but it is pretty...
I think that he is joking, because everyone is talking about the internet; but he is also making a point. Remember the old saying "buy the book...
I just looked up some of Curtis' arguments on the star placement and, as usual, they are pretty convincing.
but there are sometimes issues without a star. So the combinations give you four controls- no stars, star in left, star in right and two stars.
I believe that fields marks primarily served an internal function in the mint, a means of identifying which group struck the coin-- quality control.
10 years later and I am still looking for die matches, but mainly unofficial Siscian VLPP's. I just won an auction for a lot that is a fifth die...
for starters, you get their magazine. The latest issue had an article on Giovanni Dattari and his fabled collection of Alexandrian coins; which I...
How do you know that it is well-researched...are you so well versed in the topic? Note that there is not a single reference...and everone makes...
He's a crook who was sent to jail stemming from fraud charges. There are much better sources to check out about hoards, rather than the site of...
here is the entry from Howgego's Greek Imperial Countermarks [ATTACH]
I have a page with reverse legend translations for Constantine I, mainly from Failmezger's book Roman Bronze Coins: From Paganism to Christianity...
not to derail the thread, but Bruun was wrong and, if still alive, he would probably change his opinion on this. There has been much written on...
here's one I recently got...RIC only lists this type for Maximinus as Augustus [ATTACH] Maximinus II A.D. 311 24x25mm 7.6gm GAL VAL MAXIMINVS...
most LRB's have lead in their alloy and a few are even very slightly radioactive because they have indium in them.
only the people that are actually interested in the topic. for those few people, the webpage I linked to has many more sources.
Why are we still talking about tin? A quote from the article that I linked to "The production of the thin silver plating on the surface of the...
I have a page about the metallurgy of Constantinian bronzes and a section about the silvering process --...
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