Interesting. I received this coin in a bulk lot, from either CNG or Roma, I can't remember which. I pulled my coin out of its holder and examined...
I haven't seen one from Constantinople posted yet, so here's mine, with Victory that looks like she'd be taller than the emperor is she stood up:...
Now THERE'S an understatement!
You are confusing corrosion with bronze disease. Bronze disease will get worse and eventually destroy the coin if not treated. Corrosion, like...
I'd thought about Aegospotamoi, but I checked Wildwinds, and neither of the two coins on that site were anything close to mine. The examples that...
My first thought was that it was a horse, but nothing close turned up. So that's why I thought it might be a goat.
I can sort of see one, but I think it's just some kind of hat on a left-facing bust.
I am assuming that these two bronze coins are from the same place, despite the fact that the obverse busts are different and face different...
Is your coin gold plated? In the photo it looks like there is a thin layer of gold covering a silver coin.
While I agree with everything that Kevin just wrote, I don't see anything in the photo that screams out "Obvious fake!" The wear on the obverse of...
Thank you for pointing this out. There is an email address at the bottom of the page info@artemideauktionen.at. Did you write them?
I don't have much to offer to this conversation, except that it encouraged me to go back and check my Faustina II. No stephane, but I did notice...
Let me guess. Is it because of the broken legend for Constantius Gallus, who was merely a caesar and not an emperor?
Looks like you need a spreadsheet to keep track of all the different die match combinations.
When we call a coin uncleaned, we usually mean covered in earthen deposits or still in the condition it was in when it was first dug up from the...
All of the above reasons are possible, but I think being identified as a fake is the most common.
Nice find. I imagine it is fun to tease out so much information from the coin. This is getting dangerously close to being transported back to 194...
What with the corrosion and the double striking, I can see just about any letters that I want to see on the obverse just by changing the angle...
Yes, I think you are correct about a prize table. Now that you've said this I can see a similarity to this provincial coin of Caracalla that I...
[ATTACH] Judging by the fabric of this coin, it's either a later (after, say 150 B.C.) Greek or Roman provincial AE14. The reverse appears to be...
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