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,...
Hi, I had permission from IAPN some time back to add the fakes from the BoC to the Forvm Fake reports. I added almost all of the BoC fakes (over...
Strack made a study of eastern mint denarii (which I have not got access to) and as far as I am aware is the only published study of the eastern...
I don't have enough ALEB coins to be of any help. The only one I have doesn't have a B that explains yours. [IMG]
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