But how would the head for the right figure be modified from right to left? Tooling, as I understand it, is a technique of metal removal to...
I see the post with the two coins. They appear to me similar but not matched dies.
I do see indications of smoothing in the fields. Would you be more specific, with photos, of the tooling? I've gone over the coin with 20 power...
From the current Harlan J Berk buy/bid sale: Trajan Decius, AE sestertius, Rome, 249-251 AD. PANNONIA reverse. RIC-124a; C-87 15.56 grams...
I've always found overstruck coins fascinating, especially when a good portion of the original coin is still visible. Nice acquisition!
Very nice! Congrats! I mostly have folles and some half-folles. The smaller denominations are a realm that I have not explored to any extent....
Interesting coins! The second one might be a cast, or a very worn coin that might have been a 1 real cob originally. It's hard to tell, but it...
Nice coins! I really like the green/blue patina of the second example.
Honorius, AV solidus, Ravenna, 402-406 AD. RIC X# 1287 4.4 grams [ATTACH] Next: A coin of Arcadius or his successor.
Mexico, Republic, 8 reales, 1824 RL, Durango. Defiant style serphent. KM 376.1 26.03 grams [ATTACH]
That coin is a beautiful example! Congrats!
Here are two eastern imitation owls, probably of Persian origin. The coins have different countermarks, but I think at least the obverse dies...
Mexico, Republic, 8 reale,s 1823 JM, Mexico City. KM 376.2 26.9 grams [ATTACH]
A very nice example! If you're interested in reading some of the history behind your coin, here's a Wikipedia link:...
Nice coin! Well, if you "in-cista", here's my worn example. Mysia, Pergamon, cisophoric tetradrachm, circa 76-67 BC. Pinder 109 12.1 grams...
Here are a couple of Soviet summer Olympics 10 rubles, 1980. Judo (actually, this is a good illustration of one way to resolve a disagreement on...
A beautiful coin it is! A fine example. Alexandria had a large Greek population during Roman times and going back to the Ptolemaic kings,...
Nice acquisition and a very good price! Very nice coins posted! Coins of Nero always draws my memory back to spring 1992 when my wife and I...
How about another Postumus coin, any denomination?
That's a nice Faustina II dupondius for under 40 euros, very nicely centered! Here's a sestertius that came by way of Roma, E-Sale 94, lot 900....
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