looks like a beauty... hopefully will clean up well!
There are lots of examples: Countermarked coinage "NCAPR" etc. for earlier bronze sestertii to circulate at the value of a dupondius during the...
beauty
Here's an Ae that I acquired in one of the recent Artemide Aste auctions that I haven't seen for sale for a while. It's not in great condition but...
The more I look at this coin, the more it's clear that someone's done a real job on it. If you look at Diocletian's beard, it looks like all the...
There has definitely been some smoothing around the letters and in the fields but it appears to be a genuine coin. Perhaps the celator just...
Usually the radiate crown signifies it is a dupondius...
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Great writeup, @Ryro! It just so happens that this coin came in the mail this week - it's a hemidrachm of Elis / Olympia and features the nymph...
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Yep, looks like it.
Agree, the Domitian looks very nice!
Definitely fake. If you look at all the coins, they are all "engraved" with the same thick, rough, cartoony lines, and the metal and fabric are...
@John Anthony, I can see why you would get a bit of a bad vibe from this coin because the portrait style is different from all the usual Vespasian...
Cool!
Agree with @Mat, the coin definitely looks authentic to me as well.
awesome!
It should be available shortly. I think you can order it already from some of the European numismatic sites. Try direct from the author at...
That coin was definitely a steal... for that condition, you would otherwise have gotten it for $90 or so...
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