Which group is that ?
Yes, Google translate! :) [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I'm not sure if it got that smaller one right since the stamp wasn't very clear. Seems intriguing!
When roman gold (or local imitative gold) coins were pierced in India, it's usually with these double holes, which is understood to have been for...
Nice coin, seth! DId you post that to FORVM a long time ago under a different user name? If so, I think I offered to buy from you, and you wisely...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I first saw this coin for sale a year ago, raw, at Swedish auction house Myntkompaniet. I was hoping it...
Agreed! The die engraver was not only a master craftsman, but a talented artist and student of nature given his depictions of all four creatures!
Interesting research, Jochen! Looking for other examples, I see that when Zeus Syrgastes is accompanied by an eagle it is often shown in full to...
So this one just turned out to be a case of "3rd world dealer service" rather than postage service. I asked the dealer if there was a tracking...
It seems there must have been a lot of material removed to create the vertical of the B in the BD.SD mintmark, given an assumed SM.SD original....
Very strange looking coin! Heavily tooled then resilvered?
Yes, always :banghead: Currently waiting for one mailed from France on April 2nd .... [IMG]
The British Museum have started (193/375) entering their Rauceby coins into their online database, but only two with photos so far, both unlisted....
On Lech's "Not In RIC" site there are a couple of Victoria Avgg 4-turret "campgate" argenteii from Siscia for Constantius I as augustus (i.e...
There's a couple of Constantine coins currently for sale on eBay, also approved by Mr/Ms Hurlemann, with a slightly odd "First Christmas" theme. I...
Well, in defining a market price, relative to which a sales price might be judged bizarre, you have to take into account the nature of the ancient...
I think you're in danger of a self-affirming tautology there ... if we define market price as the changing price point every time a buyer and...
I looked at some of the coins in nummus database (which is what the article was based on too), and at first glance I'm not really seeing support...
The article is here: pp 32-33. https://www.bulletin-numismatique.fr/bn/pdf/bn216.pdf
I wonder how much stylistic variation (presumably due to different engravers) we see on these coins ? To support this theory I think we'd need to...
Nice coin, and of course classic Trier bust style ... Here's a related rather amusing, and informative, type. This example from the ANS...
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