(shıt, someone replied faster than me)
It is of course difficult to tell just from this photo if the coins are original, but the setting of coins is typical of the 19th c. Who could...
Exact ! Looking again I can see you're right, it is just doublestriking ! Thank you for your eagle eyes.
The reverse of your coin has a blundered legend : +IhSuIS / XRISTIuS / etc... These folles are often like this : a very good style obverse...
Thank you ! FMRD VI.1.1 means that a specimen of these "monsters" has been found in Cologne, Germany... Interesting ! These coins may well be...
I can assure you there is no ambiguity. On Roman Latin inscriptions mentioning honores, the term iterum means precisely : for a second time. If it...
I have a bizarre Domitian. It is in bronze, looks like an as, but is a monster. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] AE 26 mm, 7.40 g Obv.: IMP CAES DOMITIANVS...
Well... I don't understand. They did not forget the buyer's commission, after all? Their error is they mistakenly believed they forgot it, and...
Errare humanum est. You say they are just beginners in the business, they are likely to make errors. What bad publicity? It's not like they had...
I think iterum means : "for the second time".
It is surely accidental, I know no example of extra symbol carved on purpose at this place on the obverse die. Die rust would have been...
Ah OK I did not understand precisely what you meant. There is even more. The obelisk which is now Piazza Navona was commissioned in Egypt by...
Very nice denarius ! But it was not struck at Rome. In 84-83 Sulla was not in Rome but in south Italy, preparing his troops for the storming of...
Was it so new? There are many representations of Roman emperors as pharaohs before Domitian. This pharaoh, from a wall of the temple of Kom Ombo,...
I don't know if there is a method for authenticating ancient coins. If there was, it would be easier to hire coin-experts. Just 2 months training...
[ATTACH] Commodus, sestertius. The rev. exergue is Fid(es) exerc(itus) but the type is an adlocutio. NEXT : a reverse with more than 3 people.
Grading ancient coins reminded me of this textbook in "Dead Poets Society", in which Dr Pritchard PhD explained the method for evaluating poetry....
I do not pay much attention to the potential financial value of coins. Yes I know, this can sound idealist but I'm now too old to change my...
This 2 solidi coin was something exceptional, it may have been minted very soon after Valentinian's election in 364. The reverse shows the...
Superb! Struck in Antioch... Congratulations ! deserves to be published...
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