I hadn't seen an Aurelian posted for awhile and then see a few Aurelian threads posted between ordering this coin and it arriving yesterday, I...
I am going to inflict another FEL TEMP hut on you. I bought this because it was interesting to me for a few reasons. I am going to bore you all by...
The Rome phoenix is tough. Good find. I have ALEA for the Gallus but not ALEB. [IMG]
Not anything like any coin I have seen, I suspect not a coin at all.
There are quite a few "unofficial" / "Barbarous" coins of the period made with convincingly good silver. Here are a few of mine. [IMG] [IMG]...
Jax is a chemical patination I have seen used by zappers to apply new patina to bare metal coins....
The two tone one looks Jax'd.
This seller is a big name seller but this is through their ebay venue. This "coin" has gone through 2 major auction houses in the last two years,...
This is an example of tooled silver. Though it is described by the current seller as "light smoothing" [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
On my only Gallus example from this issue (I need to do something about that only bit....) the head also doesn't break the exe line. [IMG] In...
I am slowly gathering examples from this mint so there are lots of gaps. I don;t have all the issues yet. I get too easily distracted. Sometimes I...
They were indeed.... many thanks.
There is a range in the depiction of Victory too with regards to wing spread [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
@Victor_Clark Your fancy shield is better defined than mine.... [ATTACH]
Nothing earth shattering but as always I seem to continue with my scatter gun approach to hoarding. I have always had a liking for Lugdunum and...
I suspect it will "Victory advancing left, holding wreath and palm".
Very nice. I have owned a few. The more usual youth on horseback [IMG] And the left facing rider [IMG]
That early Antioch is a gem.
Also with AVG BRIT [IMG]
An aftercast..... Compare with these. [IMG] [IMG] [IMG] The latter one described below:- Unsigned cast bronze medal after G. Cavino,...
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