Exactly! Is not always so obvious to detect. Maybe this fine crack on the flan at the Augustus' shouder and front of the face, over the legend,...
I totally agree. 100%. As I wrote above, there is a theory about the official fourrées struck by the roman treasure. I really believe this. Of...
Excellent coins and posts! Fantastic portraits! Here the only two in my collection. None in good conditions... [ATTACH] RIC V 261, 270 A.D.;...
Me neither! And personally, I like very much to collect fourrées. I believe that in my collection there are almost 40 fourrées, both in silver and...
Nice portrait! Obviously, it would be interesting to compare this coin with the existing and official dies for this type. But I would not rule out...
Yes! I usually dip the coins into kerosene or olive oil and forget them for a few weeks. After that time, I clean them with a hard-bristled...
Fantastic!
Oh yes! It seems to me probably a copper fallus (there are too much crusts e deposits on the flan), type Mamluk Baibars, from Damascus (Mamluk...
Poor example? No! How I wish one with this grade...It's a very very nice Leg XXII. I just have on my collection one II, VI, that poor Chortis...
[ATTACH] Hey Bing! Your legionary want list also includes this peculiar type of "yellowish denarius"? :angelic:
A little bit late to post my reply, but here is my second Galba's denarius. [ATTACH] I bought (won) it on CNG auction about 4-5 months ago. It's...
Thanks, my lord!
Here is my rarest Nero's denarius. Despite a fourrée (it doesn't matter to me) was struck under Claudius, with Nero as Caesar (50-54AD). R2 RIC I...
Wow!!!!!
[ATTACH] Ionia, circa 650-550 BC Electrum 1/24th stater, SNGvA 1802; Rosen 370; SNG Kayhan 713, aF, 0.527g, 5.8mm, obverse facing lion head;...
Excellent, Bing! Congrats to both! For you and the generous man that gave this nice and scarce coin!
I'm starting to believe in Caligula's Curse...My first Caligula coin, a Vesta As succumbed by bronze disease. I needed to replace it.
Here comes my Germanicus As: [ATTACH][ATTACH] And my dupondius: [ATTACH][ATTACH] Both with a delicious chocolate patine... Taste it so...
Well, every rule has its exception!
Good job! Love it! The only ancient coin (a beautiful Corinthian stater) that I had slabed was freed for me just few months ago...it was a...
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