This example is from the same issue as the OP but had a Laureate head instead. This one has a long, thin neck whilst others in the same issue have...
These coins have a similar style to the early issues of Lugdunum but are unmarked. At some point these coins have been assigned to either London...
I am having a lean time collecting in my core areas and as tends to happen at these times I get very easily distracted into other areas. This coin...
I think that one of my RIC 377s is a reverse die match... [ATTACH]
Rome mint
Obv:- GEORGIUS IIII DEI GRATIA ., Laureate, draped bust left Rev:- BRITANNIAR: REX FID: DEF:, Seated figure of Britannia facing right with lion at...
As a teenager, many years ago, I started collecting farthings as that was a far as my limited pocket money would allow. All low grade, purchased...
This one is from the first eastern issue Obv:- IMP CAES TRAIAN HADRIANO OPT AVG GER DAC, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from...
I also had Obv:- IMP CAES TRAIAN HADRIAN OPT AVG GER DAC, Laureate cuirassed bust right, with drapery on far shoulder Rev:- PARTHIC DIVI TRAIAN...
I woned this one, which would be contemporary with it of the same reverse type but with a different bust type. Obv:- IMP CAES TRAIAN HADRIANO AVG...
Congratulations Victor, That example must be one of the best examples I have ever seen, if not the best. Truly fantastic. I have far too many of...
I had a small collection of VRBS ROMA. Nothing really special.... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Because the OP is a cast of such a fake.
Here is a matching example with a fake patina from the Forvm fake reports. [ATTACH]
I respectfully disagree. Given the clear eastern style of the coin the attribution would be RIC 503a. https://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.ss.503A
I have four coins from the Rauceby hoard. Galerius (As Augustus) Follis Obv:– IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, Laureate, cuirassed bust right Rev:–...
It very much depends on what "apparently unpublished" means. It generally means "I couldn't find it in the references I have available to me"...
Here is another 96.... with quite a clear cap. [ATTACH] Here is a 94 for general comparison [ATTACH]
The difference between the two issues is the dot preceding the mintmark in the exe placing yours in the second of the two issues. The difference...
Are you sure of the attribution as RIC VIII Cyzicus 93A var. Wouldn't the dot preceding the mintmark make it RIC VIII Cyzicus 96? I don't have a...
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