But another question for you. if it had been smoothed over by Tim the Tooler wouldn't the chocolate brown patina have given way to a shiny brass...
This is what he replied about the coin: "The Franz coin exhibits an extremely flat strike with little or no detail remaining in the obverse and...
So is this coin for sale on Vcoins tooled? I posted it once on a thread by @Johnnie Black who bought one of these and @IdesOfMarch01 posted that...
Nice denarius of a great emperor. Here is a sestertius honoring him after his death. AE Sestertius 21.70g. 31mm. Struck under Commodus c. 180-182...
Thanks Ancient A., just added to that post that that dude was The last of the Holy Roman Emperors!
OK, since we are going super modern[ATTACH] [ATTACH] here is: MARIE ANTOINETTE(126): actually her nephew from Germany Franciscus II. The year he...
[ATTACH] One more glaring omission was MITHRADATES VI who also issued coins. He had to be at least as influential as those later Romans. Many...
[ATTACH] Now this guy didn't make the list since he has been deified but back in the time of Alexander and the early Caesars he would have been on...
[ATTACH] Alexander the Great lifetime issue in Babylon right before he died.Hemidrachma
Great post Curtisimo the great. Surprised you don't have a lifetime issue[ATTACH][/ATTACH] [ATTACH] of Alexander. Here is my double whamo:...
That looks even closer, thanks Zumbly
Thank You for the pointers Doug. Much appreciated.
like this:[ATTACH] Looks like a LRB reverse?
Rotate that one 90 degrees to the left(counter-clockwise) and a Roman(?) expert here could probably c ID it for you.
That could be a Roman obverse bust. Reverse? side
Maybe like this? indian Sultunae of Gujjarit- a longshot guess.[IMG]
That's good. It will make the ID much easier for the experts here. For me, not a clue. Actually the second side looks a little Arabic/Islamic...
Is there another side to the coin?(how often do we get to say that here on CTancients?) @Ryro did you sell the one you posted recently to this new...
I didn't geta it at first!
[ATTACH] I Think you all are right on. he does look like Augustus. Tiberius and Nero have bigger noses that are more kind of beaked. Trajan and...
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