And look at the flow lines extending from the letters to the rim!
SALVS reverse, I think: [ATTACH]
One from Frank's latest auction. The reverse die was worn out and this resulted in some serious flow lines! Post your examples of prominent flow...
Nothing altered. Just photographed under different conditions.
Here's an example in the British Museum collection: [ATTACH]
No, Fortuna holds a cornucopiae. This one holds a branch and caduceus, I think. Probably a dupondius, AD 72. IMP CAESAR VESPASIAN AVG COS IIII,...
LOL! From a different angle: [ATTACH] It's from a Greek funerary sculpture on display at the Getty Villa. Here's a catalog of such pieces in...
The artwork is much less well-rendered, I think, on the post-reform radiates. Is this a portrait of Diocletian or of Maximian on this...
I think it's fun to look up coins in Sulzer's collection (published 1777). His example had the SC: [ATTACH]
The famous Gallienus smirk. [ATTACH]
Yes. VΠATOCTOΔ would be equivalent to COSIV. I suspect it is to be taken as VΠATOC TO Δ, Consul the fourth. [ATTACH]
Here's a Severan provincial featuring an altar -- a little assarion from Nicaea: [ATTACH] Julia Domna, AD 193-217. Roman provincial Æ assarion,...
Gordie-stache! [ATTACH]
Yes, at that time, there was the letter STIGMA, which was the sixth letter (between E and Z) and used to denote the number 6.
Here are a couple of Alexandrian tets of Nero from my collection: [ATTACH] Nero and Claudia Octavia. Roman provincial billon tetradrachm, 11.1...
I have two examples of this issue in my collection. I just picked up an "upgrade" from the latest Frank Robinson auction and it's the normal...
Interesting story. Obviously, the coins found at the site are much more recent than the fortress itself. [ATTACH]
Nicer than my humble example: [ATTACH]
What a score! I love going into depth, researching die-matches and comparing my scarce coins to other published examples. The specialist collector...
Wow, @zumbly ! I've never seen one of those reverse types on a coin of Valerian anywhere else. :wideyed: I only have the one issued by T-Bone,...
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