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<p>[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 4614183, member: 96864"]Very interesting coin! My dad made jewelry and faceted stones years ago and the first thing that comes to mind is that your coin was modified for jewelry (I think Cufflinks), with the obverse scarified and peened perhaps to make it easy to mount in a paste/pitch/resin setting, kinda like stone cabochons. There are lots of approaches and while soldering would make sense for late 19th century forward, maybe that was modified considerably earlier? The fact that Vespasian's face is unmarred seems to preclude an implement accident or damnatio.</p><p><br /></p><p>I've got one that has a terrible reverse but arrived with a pleasing obverse, and was probably also used in jewelry like yours. Mr Glover in the UK has lots of nifty items, and a while back I came across one of his unidentified "Greek silver coin" auctions with only a picture of the scarred (naturally concave) reverse, the 2nd picture being an accidental upload of a random arrowhead or something.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1142775[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The spidey senses tingled and I suspected there was a good chance that the obverse was better looking, so I took the ~14.00 shipped gamble and was very pleased to see it was a ~2.9g Calabria, Tarentum drachm!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1142778[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Not connoisseur grade but we're happy to have them![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Plumbata, post: 4614183, member: 96864"]Very interesting coin! My dad made jewelry and faceted stones years ago and the first thing that comes to mind is that your coin was modified for jewelry (I think Cufflinks), with the obverse scarified and peened perhaps to make it easy to mount in a paste/pitch/resin setting, kinda like stone cabochons. There are lots of approaches and while soldering would make sense for late 19th century forward, maybe that was modified considerably earlier? The fact that Vespasian's face is unmarred seems to preclude an implement accident or damnatio. I've got one that has a terrible reverse but arrived with a pleasing obverse, and was probably also used in jewelry like yours. Mr Glover in the UK has lots of nifty items, and a while back I came across one of his unidentified "Greek silver coin" auctions with only a picture of the scarred (naturally concave) reverse, the 2nd picture being an accidental upload of a random arrowhead or something. [ATTACH=full]1142775[/ATTACH] The spidey senses tingled and I suspected there was a good chance that the obverse was better looking, so I took the ~14.00 shipped gamble and was very pleased to see it was a ~2.9g Calabria, Tarentum drachm! [ATTACH=full]1142778[/ATTACH] Not connoisseur grade but we're happy to have them![/QUOTE]
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