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<p>[QUOTE="GeorgeM, post: 5173133, member: 28550"]I'm trying to attribute & appraise this denarius. Any help would be appreciated because, as I mentioned earlier, I'm fairly new to Ancients. It's the only recognizably silver piece in this collection of Roman, Byzantine, & Cilician Armenian pieces. (Where is the line generally drawn between ancient and just plain old? 1096? 1453? 1492?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, if I'm reading the legend and recognize the portrait correctly, this 19mm silver is a denarius of Severus Alexander. I found the same reverse (Libertas holding an abacus & cornucopia) on a coin with a slightly different obverse portrait. Is this a mule? Is the other coin a mule? Or are the obverse differences attributable to something else (like a provincial mint or celebratory/commemorative issue)?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1211335[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1211336[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here's the comparison piece I found:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1211337[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GeorgeM, post: 5173133, member: 28550"]I'm trying to attribute & appraise this denarius. Any help would be appreciated because, as I mentioned earlier, I'm fairly new to Ancients. It's the only recognizably silver piece in this collection of Roman, Byzantine, & Cilician Armenian pieces. (Where is the line generally drawn between ancient and just plain old? 1096? 1453? 1492?) Anyway, if I'm reading the legend and recognize the portrait correctly, this 19mm silver is a denarius of Severus Alexander. I found the same reverse (Libertas holding an abacus & cornucopia) on a coin with a slightly different obverse portrait. Is this a mule? Is the other coin a mule? Or are the obverse differences attributable to something else (like a provincial mint or celebratory/commemorative issue)? [ATTACH=full]1211335[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1211336[/ATTACH] And here's the comparison piece I found: [ATTACH=full]1211337[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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