Thanks much, @Severus Alexander ! Wonder where I got that from... Well, I'm glad to be able to remove that error from a bunch of my records now!
That's a great Quintillus. The portraits of Quintillus are sometimes really very impressive. (As soon as you mentioned it, I remembered the lovely...
I made a mistake originally and posted a silvered Trier Campgate, not Lyon, so fixed it about 90 seconds later with a Gratian Lyon. And updated my...
(I consider that late enough, Donna!) EDIT OOPS! MY FIRST ONE DIDN'T COUNT -- TRIER NOT LYON!!! Unfortunately I don't have my favorite type of...
Being a collector of "captives coinage," I tend to appreciate these ones where she balances it on the captive's head. Haven't gotten my own photo...
Great answers and info and examples, @JayAg47 , @randygeki and @maridvnvm ! Very helpful. I do think #1 must be the horse's other hind leg shown...
Quick View Thumbnails (minus the two images direct from CT Gallery): [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Is it time for a new...
Nice set of Caesarea clubs! I don't have any silver coinage of Caesarea, but I appreciate it from a distance in my nice little copy of Sydenham...
That's a fascinating one, @Broucheion , I love any kind of bilingual coins. (Also from a very interesting collection; "JSW," as he was known in...
That countermark on the left facing Claudius AE Asses appears to be Hercules/ Herakles. (There's one on an Agrippa As in the current HJB sale, BBS...
How about a "Mars AND/OR Ares"? This one is usually called Ares (or Ares/Mars), I assume because the Bretti (far S. Italy) were "Hellenized" and...
Sorry, didn't see this until now, it's a good question, glad @Barry Murphy chimed in with some great institutional knowledge about Vinchon being...
How about another 1st Cent RPC...of Claudius: This one is sometimes called an Imperial, but the type is listed in RPC I, #1256; in fact, this...
Oh, just remembered -- here's another neat countermark. This one is actually cited (but not illustrated) in Howgego GIC 686 (as Robert 77 = this...
And to the things noted by @Spaniard and @Etcherman -- These differences are almost certainly the artifact of photography and, more importantly,...
Donna, I think what you've said about your coin and Dattari is about right. I think what's actually going on is that the plates were switched....
Great work on the provenance research and great find! There's no better feeling. Glad to see an rnumis success story -- I'm a fan of that site.
I was interested to see how distribution of responses would look. So far it's forming a pretty nice "normal distribution" (i.e., bell curve)...
Oh, so that was you who nabbed the greatest prize from Naville 72! Congratulations, I'm glad it went to you. Yours is definitely the correct coin...
Here are some of my saved countermark references, cut and pasted from "master file" of notes. I may have some other annotated references and...
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