@Marsyas Mike and @dougsmit -- Thanks for the comments: This conversation has (to my enjoyment) gotten a bit technical and moved away from the...
This comment continues the conversation started among @dougsmit (see CT Post 8289212), @Marsyas Mike (see CT Post 8289019), myself (@Curtis , see...
Interesting thread! Helmets in their varieties do a appear on a LOT of ancient coins. I'd forgotten some of my own (like the big facing...
Here's a Provincial Claudius (though I see it sometimes listed as Imperial) that I'm very fond of. I posted it recently on the "Follow the Game"...
I have had similar things happen on occasion! This reminds me of Michael Shutterly's Coinweek article last year (14 April 2021), “The One That Got...
Great countermark, hadn't seen that before! Looks like Howgego 369 is RPC Countermark 489, with a few more examples here:...
Very helpful, thanks for the updates! I'll be adding much of the material you linked to my personal biblio / links / research/ notes file. As I...
Mount Argaeus as a countermark! Britannicus AE of Cappadocia, Caesaraea-Eusebia. Octavia and Antonia on reverse. 20mm, 5.87g. (Coin-in-hand video...
Yup, that's the one! That and -- very confusingly -- Monogram 1045 (both are slightly wrong, but I believe both mistakenly cataloged the same...
I think there are two plausible mechanisms by which reverses often look sharper than the obverse, only one having to do with wear. First, the...
I agree they're a die match (edited above after overlaying). It could be that there was only a single pair of dies for the genuine coins of that...
In my opinion, the two coins are definitely NOT die matches -- at least not double. (Just compare the placement of the letters in the legends, the...
I just emailed to Kolbe & Fanning, by the way, so they won't reproduce that description in their future catalogs, and may be able to point me to...
I believe you are right. Karl Kress numismatist was born in 1892, but the one captured by the MFAA was reportedly born 1900. So I'm going to...
Thank you for brining that up -- it is a good question and definitely worth following up on. I had wondered about that for some time, since the...
Donna, thanks for sharing that coinsweekly article, I hadn't seen it, but it's now in my biblio notes file! EDIT: I've edited/moved the erroneous...
Congratulations, great coin! I love Republican brockages -- especially this one since it has my name on both sides!!!
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