I'm no Tifbrandt, but if we really want that Old Master's look... [ATTACH]
Oh wow. I didn’t know that. That one is a beauty.
[ATTACH] I love the dark toning of the OP example. Here's an Augustus denarius I bought from Jeff Clark in 2004. It looks like it's been dipped...
One of these days I'd like to get one of those rare "Sol Facing" [forward] issues from Ticinum. Victor has a nice one in his stock right now:...
Would you gloss the reverse legend, then, as stating that the sun god is a companion, or an attendant/part of your retinue? To me, the former...
You know, I didn’t bother to read deeply into my own dictionary screenshot. Apparently “comes” can mean attendant or part of a retinue. So...
[ATTACH] I too wonder what message, overt or covert, the legend implies. But “comiti” is derived from “comes,” which is more of a companion than...
As many know, the SOLI INVICTO with the cross in the left field was struck only at Ticinum. If the cross is a Christian cross, it would be the...
A while back Valentinian started a thread on particularly attractive versions of fairly common coins I think that Heraclea commemorative qualifies.
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That’s crazy. And for an obviously bad fake. SMH.
Deacon Ray has improved on an already good design. Looks like you're on your way to a fabulous presentation. One quibble: You've listed Caligula...
Ditto that. High quality example$.
Sorry SA. This was my thread and now I feel responsible. But maybe the upshot here is that you rid your collection of a forgery and hopefully get...
Just to be educated further here, the problem is not that SA’s coin has a die match. Plenty of coins have die matches. The problem is that SA’s...
That’s a good price, even for coins in lower grades. Some people may not collect coins in lower grades, but I have several, and I find the real...
Look, with kids like Geta and Caracalla, Mom has to relax any way she can.
I understand that there is a sucker born every minute. The thing already has bids. But if one is interested in the coin, it’s probably because one...
Wow. That is a lot of tooling. Maybe he’s not so lazy after all. But if you go to the trouble of tooling away an entire brick building, can’t you...
You'd think that if someone was going to fake a Constantine SPES PUBLIC, the forger could at least get the Chi-Rho on the reverse right. That's...
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