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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3957438, member: 57495&quot;]It doesn&#039;t look like sort of lamination defect I&#039;m familiar with, but my knowledge here is limited to a few pieces I&#039;ve seen.&nbsp; My copy of Boutin actually arrived today, but not surprisingly, it makes no mention of this coin being plated or being anything other than a regular didrachm of Metapontion.&nbsp; I can imagine impurity/pitting/porosity as possibilities.&nbsp; The damage reminds me alot of what I often see on those Fulvia-as-Victory quinarii of Mark Antony.&nbsp; Like this one below, <i>not mine</i>, from <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2247939" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2247939" rel="nofollow">the McCabe collection</a>, and not noted as being plated.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1042492[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is from the same period (426-404 BC), but I don&#039;t think Ravel considers the ivy-wreath type as being from the same issue as the laurel-wreath type.&nbsp; Perhaps it commemorated some other important local event... Dionysian wine festival where everybody got epically sloshed?&nbsp; Either ways, super cool. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, you don&#039;t have to worry on that account, Sev... nothing from your collection I really want anyway. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>J/k. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Here seems to the right place to share this honorable mention that, honestly, was one of the highlights of my coin year.&nbsp; Thanks, bud! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1042499[/ATTACH]<b>CRISPUS</b></p><p>Rare type, esp for Crispus. AE3. 3.35g, 19.9mm. Thessalonica mint, AD 319. RIC VII Thessalonica 69. O: D N FL IVL CRISPVS NOB CAES, laureate and cuirassed bust right. R: VIRT EXERC, plan of Roman camp(?), Sol standing left at center; TSЄ in exergue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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