I bought it about 10 years ago from my son's piano teacher here in the UK to try and get him into coins. It has sat there for over 10 years...
I have been working through a biscuit tin of mixed world coins and pulled 7 Canadian coins out of it. ONE CENT 1859 (Narrow 9) [IMG] ONE CENT...
Not quite true in all cases. You do get heroic busts from the rear too. [IMG] Look up Heroic bust of Eukratides too.... where he is from the...
I am not an expert on the coinage of Otho. The hair is the least Otho like I have seen on any of his coins. Even worn examples show traces of the...
Siscia at it's best...
Hi @barnaba6 , Many thanks for your response. The obverse being shared between officinae is indeed something that caught my eye as being againt...
Tooled? It looks very odd.
My DSLR for coin work is an old Canon EOS 400D, called the Digital Rebel XTi in North America and datyes back to 2006/2007 so it's not about the...
This is my setup. Canon DSLR - with 60mm Macro lens - Manual settings - F8, 1 1/3 secs. Tripod Lamp with Daylight bulb Light tent at about 1...
I have some from the family too..... Julia Domna - possibly silver, possibly fouree [ATTACH] Caracalla Fourees [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Geta...
The following more align with the IMP issues The first is IMP II and is very good style but not good enough. The reverse type is an exact reverse...
I have gathered a few Severan period imitatives over the years with an attempt to focus on those copying the eastern issues where possible because...
Looking at the @dougsmit post above I believe that I have an obverse die match to his example copying the Rome mint, VIRT AVG... type. Mine...
Many thanks for that snippet. I have that volume. Some evening reading approaches......
What a lovely example. Mine came with old collector's tags but their origin has been lost. Is anyone aware of any documentation available of the...
I have a collection of some of the more common FEL TEMP REPARATIO types and amongst them is a range of the Galley types. I also have a general...
I have only ever owned one which was a Trier Siliqua..... This coin had a somewhat poor end. I decided to sell it and sent it to a dealer for...
This is the closest that I could find on acsearch https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1534749
I did own three others in the past but I parted with them as they were peripheral to my collecting focus. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
The S-C should be rotated through 90 degrees on the OP coin!
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