It is not rare to find denarii Under-weight of Commodus. They often are genuine.
Purple cloth seens to give the sharpest result.personally, I use my red Swiss passport cover as the best background for my coin pictures !
Very nice coin at a real Bargain price !
Congratulation, right choice, right coin !
Ancient Greeks, mostly during 4th.Century BC, struck tiny silver coins named Oboles, to meet the needs of small change. The tradition expects...
Obols, charming miniature coins (2)
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Congratulations for your performance You succeeded in achieving an jmpressive and rare collection of quality portraits of emperors with uniform...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Various portrait ornate coins of this emperor, some more realistic (i.e. less flattering than others) in fact he was known as a...
The above Claudius II is also with "SPQR" from Cyzikus.
Here is my Claudius II,reverse "Virtuti Avg"[ATTACH][ATTACH]
Your pictures of beautiful provincial coins confirm my comments
Your pictures of beautiful coins, confirm my comments !
You describe very accurately why the provincials are very interesting, worth collecting. Amongst a lot of fantasist portraits of Roman emperors by...
Thank you for a very interesting and helpful comment. My ClaudiusII, as can be noticed, has a reverse with"Virtuti Avg".
Here is my Claudius II with an unusually fine portrait !
Here is my Claudius II from Cyzique:
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