This reminds me of a discussion I saw some year back about Roman elephants on coins and the cross hatching that is depicted on them. There was...
Could the damage have been done post production? I take it that it corresponds to the understruck/flattened areas at about 5 o'clock on the obv....
There are a variety of legends where the legends end in AG vs AVG. Whether they are scarcer than AVG or not is not a straight forward thing to...
I had a similar coin which I lazily attributed as trabea as I couldn't say that it wasn't [IMG] I thought it worthwhile showing one that I have...
My feeble attempt was done over a decade ago using the colourise tool in a program called Paint Shop Pro. I don't even have this software any more.
I think the problem here is that we are not looking at it with ancient eyes. The engraver will likely have never seen a dolphin but would have...
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