This is easily the best example I have ever seen.
What a great post @Orielensis! I shall post a picture of my Postumus with Salus Provinciarum reverse later. Given Postumus' role in stabilizing...
This is my home region! :) I think this makes a lot of sense. I guess the Echzell hoard was misinterpreted. These coins were probably not made by...
This is perhaps the historically most interesting example. The coin was found in Vinnitskaya oblast, Pogrebishe This coin is not an imitation,...
Do I understand you correctly in that the scholarly consensus is that these coins are contemporary forgeries that were produced by "illicit" mints?
Below is one of my favorite Gothic imitations. I think the coin was copied after a Probus or Diocletian aureus Obv.: Laureate bust right Rev:...
I think "inflation money" is the best term to describe these coins, because they were minted during a period of rapidly rising inflation or...
True, I just noted this for the coin 101, which I just posted. I guess the same man holed the coins, perhaps even on the same occasion.
Does anybody know what the model for the coin below was? The obverse legend is readible Obv.: IMP M ANTONIN Rev.: NICIA II.. CTORI It is...
That is interesting. I find it surprising that there should still have been a Roman-style economy some 10 to 20 years after the Romans had left...
Here is another coin from my collection. Imitation of Probus aureus Obv.: Bust with helmet, spear and shield left Rev.: Quadriga Found: Near...
Typically, these coins don't have loops, but crude holes: Obv.: Helmeted bust with shield and spear Rev.: Horseman (Adventus) Found:...
I also have a number of pieces with the loop still in place. For example, this is coin no. 142 from the Anokhin catalog, i.e. the exact same...
Yes, it is the same coin. It is difficult to see from the picture. The coin studied by several Ukrainian and Polish numismatists and there was...
I have a few of these Barbarous imitations of the Gallic Empire, here are three of them: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Below is a "Gothic" imitation of an aureus of Probus. I bought the coin a couple of years ago. The exact same coin is in the O. Anokhin catalog...
In general, my view has always been that barbarous imitations of coins of the Gallic empire were made in unofficial mints in Gaul and at the...
This is a wonderful coin, but I really cannot see how the plugging of the hole made the coin any more collectable. In a sense it is an honest...
I liked and and would have valued the coin much higher with the test cut.
Below is an imitation, which I own and which I like to interpret as the earliest depiction of Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse (since the coin...
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