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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1798072, member: 19463&quot;]The Byzantine emperors were named Romanus.&nbsp; Romulus was a boy who died in 309 AD as well as the first king and last Western Emperor.&nbsp; </p><p>Romulus, son of Maxentius, Rome mint</p><p>[ATTACH=full]291574[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin concerns me greatly because I can not explain it.&nbsp; I bought it in 1995 from a trusted source.&nbsp; At first glance it appears to have been tooled around the portrait but, looking closer, there are questions.&nbsp; Why is the bottom of the neck higher and not cut around?&nbsp; Behind the head is a short space where the cutting is replaced by a raised ridge.&nbsp; I considered the possibility that the die caved in breaking around the weaker, thinner metal where head joined the field.&nbsp; That could mean that the coin was struck from a die made from an electrotype backed by another material and, therefore is probably a fake but I have never seen anything remotely like it on this or any other coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have posted this before on various sites asking opinions and never had a reply.&nbsp; If anyone has a wild guess or considered opinion, I would love to hear it.&nbsp; More, I&#039;d like to see any coin with similar damage.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a Republican denarius with a head said to be Romulus the founder.&nbsp; Hadrian has a Romulus reverse type I have shown before.&nbsp; Romulus Augustulus is terribly rare in gold and way over my head price wise.&nbsp; His bronzes are all fakes cut from other coins.&nbsp; I suspect some of the gold ones are fake, too.&nbsp; There is a silver in RIC but I don&#039;t recall seeing one for sale.&nbsp;&nbsp; Another R is Regalianus who overstruck his coins on Severan emperors and is very crude crude.&nbsp; &nbsp; It may be just my imagination but it seems odd that you see as many coins offered in the name of his wife Dryantilla as of Regalianus himself.&nbsp;&nbsp; Since the coins were stuck on old denarii, they really were better than the stuff Gallienus was producing in 260.&nbsp; I would love to have one but I&#039;d want one with an identifiable undertype on a 95% off sale.&nbsp; There are late Roman coins with reverse monogram of the puppetmaster Ricimer.&nbsp;&nbsp; R is a good letter for people who like to spend big money on ugly Roman coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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