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Message:: [QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4052469, member: 85693"]Here is Part II of the marvelous lot of ancients sent me by tenbobbit: A Somewhat Botched Maximianus follis:   I really like these big LRB folles, but this one is even more special - if I am attributing it right, it is from the Rome mint (RIC VI Rome 63), where something bad happened between anvil and hammer and die - I'm not very good with errors, but I think this is a double-strike or broken die or something along those lines.  This is a big 'un - 9.86 grams.   [ATTACH=full]1062012[/ATTACH] Silver! Back when I first started collecting, this is the kind of silver I sought - toning in the fields highlighting the devices and legends.  I much prefer this look to flashy white stuff.  This one has some heft too - 3.35 grams.  RIC 362, Ceres reverse:  [ATTACH=full]1062009[/ATTACH] Bzyantine:  There were four Byzantine AEs in this batch and they are all quite handsome.  The two half folles of Justin II from Thessalonica are quite nice for this issue (better than the ones in my collection - note the cross above the K on one, Theta above the other).  [ATTACH=full]1062008[/ATTACH] My favorite is this big follis from Heraclius, Nicomedia mint (SB 833).  This one has a dramatic drapery across the emperor's shoulders - I found one other example similar to this; most don't go the full Batman cape route.  [ATTACH=full]1062013[/ATTACH] A Big Ol' Sestertius and the Beauty of Less-than-Perfect:  I just love these big chunks of brass.  Antoninus Pius here has an interesting Pax reverse - rather than just standing around waving a branch, she is setting fire to a pile of arms (RIC 777).  [ATTACH=full]1062015[/ATTACH] The Lucilla (? I think this is RIC 1756) is not going to be to everyone's taste, as time has not been kind to her.  But I just adore it - something about Venus de Milo and her missing arms is going on here.  You can tell from the back of Lucilla's head and neck that some very fine art went into the production of this one.  Attached to try and make my point is a famous Egyptian sculpture of a queen in yellow jasper at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - yeah, I hope they find the rest of her, but I really, really like her the way it is now.    [ATTACH=full]1062010[/ATTACH]  [ATTACH=full]1062011[/ATTACH] Viminacium:   Rounding out the Provincials, here are a pair from Viminacium, Herennia Etruscilla sestertius and a dupondius from Gordian III.  An interesting series from an interesting place, I was especially pleased to add a Herennia Etruscilla to my collection - not the most common of Imperial women.  [ATTACH=full]1062016[/ATTACH] Finally, a Mystery:  I posted this one separately in an effort to figure it out, and got a lot of help (thank you all).  tenbobbit told me he too had been puzzled by it.  Thanks to CTers and Andrejze at kwintocoins.com (now a fellow CTer).  Bosporos?  Macedonia Koinan?  Not knowing can be appealing too...maybe someday... This was an attempt to take a better photo than in my OP. <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/unknown-greek-ae-im-stumped-shield-guy-with-wreath.353992/#post-4046515" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/unknown-greek-ae-im-stumped-shield-guy-with-wreath.353992/#post-4046515">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/unknown-greek-ae-im-stumped-shield-guy-with-wreath.353992/#post-4046515</a> [ATTACH=full]1062014[/ATTACH] The rest of them are great too.  And once again, thanks to tenbobbit, a person I know only via Coin Talk, who thought to reach out and make me a very happy collector.[/QUOTE]

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