All of us have acquired coins, usually bronzes, that are so dark that they are difficult to view the details of the coin. I have recently acquired...
Gaudeamus Igitur would be very apprppriate.
The second is much better, both in clarity and color. I have found that I can get pretty credible images with a cell phone camera by using natural...
This does not seem to be a hoard in the sense of hiding the coins from barbarian marauders. Sounds to me like the spot was used by a family as a...
On that Nero piece, you have the weight as 11.5 grams. You might want to reweigh that or check what is probably a typo. Otherwise it might be an...
Thanks to both of you. I am somewhat more familiar with the various kinds of "occupation" currency of the 20th Century, though I have no idea what...
Question for you. When you say that these coins were used to pay soldiers salaries, were the troops actually paid in these coins rather than in...
Yes. I saw in the Sear Greek Imperials where the D meant fourth consulship on coins from many different mints. I saw some listed as B, presumably...
Yes, I did notice some doubling on the face of Caracalla though I did not know that came from a "die shift". I found some for sale on a few web...
Thank you all for that quick response. Yes, I can see by Sear's Greek Imperials that it is Sear 2679. I picked it up at a modest price at a local...
I need some help to nail down the mint that issued the Caracalla Syrian Tetradrachma below as well as the unusual wagon like control mark between...
I just noticed something on my Seleucid reverse image. Depending on how you look at it, the eagle is either raised or incuse
They come as plated fourees as well. This one was of excellent [ATTACH] [ATTACH] style but I wonder who the poor owner was when the first bits of...
Ah, what some older military members might recall as JATO, Jet Assisted Take Off, pods dropped off after the aircraft was airborne.
I think that fourth one is going to have a hard time getting off the ground with so unaerodynamically shaped wings. Maybe its from North Africa or...
I looked more closely at the Pegasi 149 and 159, which correspond closely to Ravel 607. Both of them have what appeared to me to be flow marks...
Yes and thanks. I was afraid I was not going to get a response. I found one similar , Ravel 384, which is similar to Pegasi 126 and apparently was...
I assume what I have here is a Corinthian stater, one actually from Corinth because of the qoppa letter beneath Pegasus, but perhaps it is from...
You might want to consider the colony of Parium, Augustus. The oxen plowing furrows is a common motif for coins issued for the founding of a Latin...
I have a Julian from that hoard. Whatever it is about the circumstances of that hoard I have found that the silver comes out so dark that at first...
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