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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 61477, member: 57463&quot;]<b>It feels like a picture of a sound</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I would say that all the ones on the bracelet are fakes, made for the jewelry trade.&nbsp; They all have the same fabric of the denarius coins of the middle late Roman Empire, circa 225-250 AD.&nbsp; However, they do not have the right &quot;look&quot; and they do have other wrong details.&nbsp; These are fantasy pieces.</p><p><br /></p><p>Starting at 9 o&#039;clock -- This is a reverse, the &quot;tails&quot; side of the coin and I cannot make out the inscription or devices.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second coin has the design and the mintmark (CONOB) of Constantinople, but those coins did not have this &quot;fabric&quot; -- as if putting a fat modern UK &quot;round pound&quot; on the planchette of an 1800s shilling, or a Kennedy half on a Large Cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>The third has the scales and torch of Aequitas (Equality -- more like &quot;Fairness&quot;), but again, I cannot read the inscription, except that it ends in AVG (see here: <a href="http://www.mcintosh55.com/items/J00911a.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mcintosh55.com/items/J00911a.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.mcintosh55.com/items/J00911a.jpg</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>The one at 12 might be Tetricus I (<a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/tetricus_I/RIC_0080.1.jpg)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/tetricus_I/RIC_0080.1.jpg)" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/tetricus_I/RIC_0080.1.jpg)</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Then comes Salonina, wife of Gallienus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Last, another &quot;Constantinople&quot; coin with the Emperor and Jesus, but on the wrong coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two coins in the center, I think, would have been struck in gold, actually, or maybe on large, copper &quot;cup-shaped&quot; (scyphate) planchets.</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all, they are not coins, but jeweler&#039;s replicas.</p><p>(And without acutally seeing them in real life, I could be <u>wrong</u>.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, I disagree with Roy&#039;s easy claim that if they were genuine, mounting them would have ruined them.&nbsp; Yes, that is true, just as it is true that Americans respect the President.&nbsp; That said, if you look at the plate coin of the Athenian Dekadrachm in Sear&#039;s Greek Coins and their Values, you will see that it was holed.&nbsp; Therefore, it is &quot;ruined.&quot;&nbsp; Yes, it would be inferior to another coin just like it -- but no other such coin exists.&nbsp; So, yes, if you have two coins of the same type at the same price, the one with the least damage is preferred.&nbsp;&nbsp; That said, there are many factors, especially with ancients.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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