I agree it's fake. Looking at the examples posted by @Bing is instructive - the "pressed" look a lot of these have is pretty obvious after you've...
I hope it is okay to bring up an old post, but it was so good, and so helpful to me that I felt compelled to...which is to say thank you, @Julius...
I was wondering about that, in a vague way - the reverse was such a mess, I figured I was just looking at it wrong. Thanks for the clarification!
This is very exciting @Curtis - I think I have a die-clash die-match to yours! This makes three known specimens: [ATTACH] Mine and yours...
Well, since this thread has been revived, I will update my incorrect Antioch-maybe attribution above - here is what I've since found: [IMG]...
Gotta love those Seleucid elephants. I have some countermarked elephants, as follows: [IMG] Seleucid Kingdom Æ 24 Antiochos III the Great...
Nice fine @Parthicus - a while back I lucked into a scarcer denonmination of this type, a didrachm. At least I think that's what it is!...
I want a copy of your reference book - this is much better than boring old RIC or the British Museum: And you didn't think we read all the...
I'm pretty excited to now be the owner of the Vespasian Spes mule denarius from Ephesus (or somewhere East) - thanks to this post, I was able to...
Thank you @Curtis - that is a helpful bibliography. I'm going to add it to my digital "library". As for the Hermes countermark, I found one...
Thank you so much @Curtis - you have definitely got me back on track with this one. I decided to do a broad acsearch using "Gegenstempel...
I love countermarks. Suspecting I'd posted some over the years here, I found links to 20, if anybody's interested:...
Those are both exceptionally attractive for the period, when coin-striking was pretty sloppy, and the coins seem to have been used hard for a long...
Thanks for gathering all this information in one place @Kiaora - this is going in my permanent research file for sure.
Oooo, I love this coin @JayAg47. It has been a kind of bucket-list coin for me since the 1980s when I saw it on the cover of one of the Penguin...
Thanks for sharing that article - I had not seen it before!
Late as always, but Hades-Serapis aka Pluto and Cerberus the Dog o' Hell is kind of spooky. So is Caracalla's scowl: [ATTACH] Caracalla Æ 27...
That is a lovely coin @ro1974. I have one of those! Her shield is about all that is visible on the reverse: [ATTACH] Septimius Severus Æ...
Thanks for the kind remarks, @Homer2 . I'm sure you'll come across a Byzantine countermark at some point - the ones Heraclius issued for Sicily...
That's an interesting countermark you have there - thanks for sharing it. I don't have one quite like that, but I think it is from the same...
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