Here is a fake I bought on ebay. A CT member IDd it quickly since it is on Ilya's Forum fake lists. The RR version of the same motif? [ATTACH]
Wow, I have never seen such detailed turrets. Beautiful and great patina highlights, she glows.
All beauties! What works of art. The first one, the dichalkon is fabulous.
amazing!
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Judaea, under Augustus: Procurator Marcus Ambibulus 9 to 12 ce. prutah
Great link to the ID of these coins. Does anyone know the silver grade of these coins? I read that they are 20 to 30% copper. Is this true? Thank You
Stunning detail on that one. Love the Vesta.
[ATTACH] RI Antoninus Pius 138-161 BCE AR Denarius A beautiful radiant denarius. Flowing beauty on the reverse.
copied and saved- Thank you RC
I had this little brother Drachm to yours, worn but with the mountain volcano reverse. I gave it recently as a gift:[ATTACH]
Great patina indeed!
ni Nice portrait!
Just won this one. Unlike many folks here on CT condition is not that important to me especially if it has a pretty patina with a good portrait....
What is the quality of gold in a coin like that? Beautiful - looks BU!
I do apologize for bending your words so to speak as a misquote. I would like to get to the bottom of this tooling issue but it does not seem...
But another question for you. if it had been smoothed over by Tim the Tooler wouldn't the chocolate brown patina have given way to a shiny brass...
This is what he replied about the coin: "The Franz coin exhibits an extremely flat strike with little or no detail remaining in the obverse and...
So is this coin for sale on Vcoins tooled? I posted it once on a thread by @Johnnie Black who bought one of these and @IdesOfMarch01 posted that...
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