How about another 1st Cent RPC...of Claudius: This one is sometimes called an Imperial, but the type is listed in RPC I, #1256; in fact, this...
Oh, just remembered -- here's another neat countermark. This one is actually cited (but not illustrated) in Howgego GIC 686 (as Robert 77 = this...
And to the things noted by @Spaniard and @Etcherman -- These differences are almost certainly the artifact of photography and, more importantly,...
Donna, I think what you've said about your coin and Dattari is about right. I think what's actually going on is that the plates were switched....
Great work on the provenance research and great find! There's no better feeling. Glad to see an rnumis success story -- I'm a fan of that site.
I was interested to see how distribution of responses would look. So far it's forming a pretty nice "normal distribution" (i.e., bell curve)...
Oh, so that was you who nabbed the greatest prize from Naville 72! Congratulations, I'm glad it went to you. Yours is definitely the correct coin...
Here are some of my saved countermark references, cut and pasted from "master file" of notes. I may have some other annotated references and...
Oh, that reminded me! I checked and there's an RPC page for Howgego 552 here: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/countermark/681 RPC calls Howgego "GIC"...
By the way, here's a fun countermark I haven't posted anywhere else yet. When adding to my countermark collection I usually go for Roman Imperial...
I would say your countermark NE is Howgego 552 (p. 213 & pl. 21) [link to excerpt and illustration]. He describes it as a countermark in the name...
@dougsmit , yours is Werz 39 (i.e., "Gegenstempel 39" on pages 100-101 of Ulrich Werz, 2009, Part II: Katalog). I don't read German well, but he...
It appears to be this coin: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/_2021-4038-1 [ATTACH]Milan mint. Obv: IMP GALLIENVS P AVG. Rev: P M...
Here's an interesting line from CNG's description (my emphasis added) of the OP hoard: "The complete contents of the hoard, save for a single...
Here’s a coin that went from being on the coast of the Aegaean (Ionia, Erythrae) to the coast of the Black Sea (Bithynia, Herakleia-Pontika) when...
They've sold a few really cool looking hoards with the vessels in the past. Not that I'm the kind of buyer who could ever spend 10s or 100s of...
I'd imagine that depends on the thickness of plating... With modern methods of (especially electroplating) the plating may be too thin to sustain...
Interesting! I've got a healthy number of Cilician Provincials, but I don't think I've ever had one from Augusta. (For the curious, RPC Online so...
I much appreciate the discussion of Probus' busts, mints, emissions, etc. Though he's a favorite of mine within RIC, Probus is just a small,...
Another risk... After one's had a taste, it can be really difficult not to eat a little bit of the coin. I've usually been able to limit myself...
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