As a teenager, many years ago, I started collecting farthings as that was a far as my limited pocket money would allow. All low grade, purchased...
This one is from the first eastern issue Obv:- IMP CAES TRAIAN HADRIANO OPT AVG GER DAC, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from...
I also had Obv:- IMP CAES TRAIAN HADRIAN OPT AVG GER DAC, Laureate cuirassed bust right, with drapery on far shoulder Rev:- PARTHIC DIVI TRAIAN...
I woned this one, which would be contemporary with it of the same reverse type but with a different bust type. Obv:- IMP CAES TRAIAN HADRIANO AVG...
Congratulations Victor, That example must be one of the best examples I have ever seen, if not the best. Truly fantastic. I have far too many of...
I had a small collection of VRBS ROMA. Nothing really special.... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Because the OP is a cast of such a fake.
Here is a matching example with a fake patina from the Forvm fake reports. [ATTACH]
I respectfully disagree. Given the clear eastern style of the coin the attribution would be RIC 503a. https://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.ss.503A
I have four coins from the Rauceby hoard. Galerius (As Augustus) Follis Obv:– IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, Laureate, cuirassed bust right Rev:–...
It very much depends on what "apparently unpublished" means. It generally means "I couldn't find it in the references I have available to me"...
Here is another 96.... with quite a clear cap. [ATTACH] Here is a 94 for general comparison [ATTACH]
The difference between the two issues is the dot preceding the mintmark in the exe placing yours in the second of the two issues. The difference...
Are you sure of the attribution as RIC VIII Cyzicus 93A var. Wouldn't the dot preceding the mintmark make it RIC VIII Cyzicus 96? I don't have a...
Maximianus Herculius - Follis Obv:– D N MAXIMIANO FELICISSIMO SEN AVG, laureate bust right in imperial mantle, olive branch in right hand, mappa...
Diocletian - Follis Obv:– D N DIOCLETIANO FELICISSIMO SEN AVG, laureate bust right in imperial mantle, olive branch in right hand, mappa in left...
Diocletian - Follis Obv:- D N DIOCLETIANO BEATISSIMO SEN AVG, Laureate bust right in imperial mantle, with olive branch and mappa Rev:-...
Maximianus Herculius, Follis Obv:– D N MAXIMIANO FELICISSIMO SEN AVG, laureate and mantled bust to right, holding branch and mappa Rev:–...
The point being made here is that these coins have had this false, sandy "patination" applied, which is the re-patination. This is a technique...
Some year 1 coins of Aurelian can be harder to find. I have managed to get a couple.... Aurelian, Billon Tetradrachm Obv:– A K Λ ∆OM AYPHΛIANOC...
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