I like the sound of this.
You know you've been overexposed to commercial Christmas kitsch when you look at that hippo's head with the reeds behind it, and all you can think...
Ow, ow. My jaw hurts from where it hit the floor. :greedy::inpain::dead: I'd trade all my Top Ten from this year (and perhaps the two previous...
You're right about the hammer part, but there were still dies involved. [ATTACH]
That's starting to sound like Elagabalus to me. But was he a sailor? I think there were sailors on some of his coins. (?) Edit: no, never mind.
Oh, my! Wonderful. I've never heard of Topiros. Or, for that matter, a faux counterstamp. Fascinating. What's the "divot" in the blank field...
Oh. Sorry. Haven't a clue.
Then again, by rotating the image 45°, I can imagine I see an arched bridge. At first I imagined it to be the wolf suckling Romulus & Remus on...
Something else is in the person/deity's right hand (on the left side of the coin).
I see a standing figure with a (garland? cornucopia?) over his/her left shoulder. A deity or personification, maybe. Or pareidolia ... :nailbiting:
Well, at least I think this one is really an ancient and not something that merely looks like an ancient.
Now it's MY turn to be stumped. I certainly hope you're not being as tricky as I was! :p
That's great. I have my own "dime of destiny" story. Remind me to post it later. No time just now. It's kinda freaky.
Well, the ancients used two dies and pre-crafted planchets. Roller dies were something of a parallel side road, I guess.
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I knew folks would imagine all kinds of designs into that blank reverse. Pareidolia. We see it all the time with the people who are convinced...
BINGO!!! Winner, winner, chicken dinner! I believe it to be a ca. late-1600s to 1700s copper or billon uniface pfennig from Hamburg. But I have...
Ahhh, but see, this isn't an ancient. I think it was struck in the 17th or more likely 18th century, but I haven't nailed that down just yet. I...
Now, ask yourself what part of Europe where small uniface minor coins were struck in copper, (or coppery billon) and you're just about caught up...
Yes, because that's the only side there is! It is uniface!
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