You see these depressed areas around letters often enough. There is a theory that this is evidence of punches being used for each letter, versus...
Just because you have not heard of something does not mean it is new. Perhaps it has become more popular in recent years but the term and...
well, I would say the first criteria for LRB is that the coin must at least be bronze, then secondly a bit later...but what date is later. a...
your coin, if that is what you are talking about, is not an LRB
“His use of the letters S.C. on many of his bronze coins…show how closely he associated himself with the religion and customs of the Imperial...
Postumus A.D. 260 Ӕ Sestertius IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMUVS P F AVG; radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. P M TR P COS II PP S C; Emperor in...
here's a poem from W.H. Auden that I've posted before Serious historians study coins and weapons Not those reiterations of one self-importance...
No, it is an unofficial Constantinian issue. It's interesting, maybe their reverse die was used up, and all they had left were obverse dies. What...
for anyone that is interested, I have this article uploaded- Armstrong, Frederick H. “The Ihnasyah Hoard Re-Examined.” Phoenix 19 (1965) : 51-60.
"I contacted ROM and they confirmed my coin in their old inventory." Do they have pictures of all 6,527 coins from the hoard...or did they just...
here's a crescent example [ATTACH]
Bastien has examples with it in the exergue and in the field, #243a & 243b and calls both RIC 259. Both are shown in the plates. La couronne se...
thanks for the link. I have an example from Otacilia Severa for RIC 127. [ATTACH]
at that size, I would be inclined to think it was an unofficial issue. There were many of these small unofficial Constantinopolis types struck....
using sodium sesquicarbonate always risks messing up the patina, sometimes darkening or even stripping it. I haven't seen a coin in this thread...
the Lugdunum Constantinopolis issues also come with a fancy shield variety. [ATTACH]
I would not even worry about, if it is just that bit on the edges. If it continues to develop, I would do a little cleaning with ammonia. "I...
you can use a q-tip and ammonia to clean it up.
Here is a Trajan foureé, you can see some bronze showing in a few spots. The obverse was used in A.D. 116 (cf. RIC 362); while the reverse is...
here's an example from Lugdunum that is not in RIC, but Bastien noted two examples. [ATTACH] Diocletian I A.D. 294 Ӕ Antoninianus 23x24mm...
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