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<p>[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 7760574, member: 91461"]Wonderful coins, write up and well thanks for sharing your talent to this our CT polis. </p><p><br /></p><p>And cause, let's be honest, Greek Coins are just more sexy<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie60" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie16" alt=":artist:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I'd also like to know what % RR's dies have been studied compared to the Emperors<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie26" alt=":bookworm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>And pardon the recent repost but this is on target. </p><p>In his excellent post on die breaks, </p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-broken-die.382859/#post-7737437" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-broken-die.382859/#post-7737437">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-broken-die.382859/#post-7737437</a></p><p>[USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] made this hilarious gif of my coin and two others, perhaps double die matches:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1330446[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And like the hour (that's how you spell it, right?) I am I will also repost this, one of my three most recent ex [USER=105389]@bcuda[/USER] and [USER=9204]@Ardatirion[/USER] wins from CNG, ancient die<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1330453[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Antoninus Pius. </b>AD 138-161. Forger’s PB impression or die for a sestertius (35mm, 53.60 g, 12h). Copying a Rome mint issue of AD 161. CONSECRATIO, four-tiered funeral pyre topped by facing quadriga; S C in exergue; all in incuse and retrograde. Cf. RIC III 1266; cf. Banti 75 (for official strike). A few scratches on reverse, spot of roughness. VF.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the WD Collection, purchased from David Vagi, January 2007. Ex New York Sale XI (11 January 2006), lot 374.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>When a counterfeiter prepared his dies, he could either engrave them himself, in a style easily to be distinguished from official mint issues, or he could use a genuine, mint-issued host coin. He would then impress this design into a piece of piece of metal and affix it to the iron die-shaft. This object may represent a counterfeiter’s first attempt, a practice strike in lead, as lead is generally too soft a metal for striking coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 7760574, member: 91461"]Wonderful coins, write up and well thanks for sharing your talent to this our CT polis. And cause, let's be honest, Greek Coins are just more sexy:kiss::artist: I'd also like to know what % RR's dies have been studied compared to the Emperors:bookworm: And pardon the recent repost but this is on target. In his excellent post on die breaks, [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-broken-die.382859/#post-7737437[/URL] [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] made this hilarious gif of my coin and two others, perhaps double die matches: [ATTACH=full]1330446[/ATTACH] And like the hour (that's how you spell it, right?) I am I will also repost this, one of my three most recent ex [USER=105389]@bcuda[/USER] and [USER=9204]@Ardatirion[/USER] wins from CNG, ancient die:woot::wideyed: [ATTACH=full]1330453[/ATTACH] [B]Antoninus Pius. [/B]AD 138-161. Forger’s PB impression or die for a sestertius (35mm, 53.60 g, 12h). Copying a Rome mint issue of AD 161. CONSECRATIO, four-tiered funeral pyre topped by facing quadriga; S C in exergue; all in incuse and retrograde. Cf. RIC III 1266; cf. Banti 75 (for official strike). A few scratches on reverse, spot of roughness. VF. [I]From the WD Collection, purchased from David Vagi, January 2007. Ex New York Sale XI (11 January 2006), lot 374.[/I] When a counterfeiter prepared his dies, he could either engrave them himself, in a style easily to be distinguished from official mint issues, or he could use a genuine, mint-issued host coin. He would then impress this design into a piece of piece of metal and affix it to the iron die-shaft. This object may represent a counterfeiter’s first attempt, a practice strike in lead, as lead is generally too soft a metal for striking coins.[/QUOTE]
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