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Offline HT

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Proto-contorniate?
« on: June 19, 2011, 07:29:00 pm »
Recently I have received my Antoninus Pius sestertius. I remember the statement about the coin just wrote 'proto contorniate'. After some research I just discover the other proto contorniates contain the higher and thicker rim on the edge. See, the rim of my Pius sestertius is not tall and thick enough, even the hammering trace is still so clear. This is a proto contorniate or just a large brass with a hammered rim only?
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Re: Proto-contorniate?
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2011, 04:25:19 pm »
Could be a protocontorniate, but hard to be sure, I'd say.

Ideally a protocontorniate should have the edge raised more, and show patina or deposits guaranteeing that the hammering up took place in antiquity.
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Re: Proto-contorniate?
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2011, 07:20:56 pm »
My late proto-contorniate.

I guarantee that the hammering up took place in antiquity.
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Re: Proto-contorniate?
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2011, 04:04:30 am »
Thanks Rugser.

Now I have more confidence to believe that is a proto contorniate in antiquity.
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Re: Proto-contorniate?
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2011, 11:47:18 am »
Rugser,

Wow!  That is quite the coin. I have never seen an AE3 sized coin like that hammered into a proto-contorniate, only larger ones.

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Re: Proto-contorniate?
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2013, 05:39:56 pm »
Nero 54-68 AD. Proto-contorniate Sestertius (AE; 32-34mm; 26.00g; 5h) ca AD 64. NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P Laureate bust of Nero with aegis to right. Rev. Triumphal arch, hung with wreath across front; above, the emperor in facing quadriga escorted on r. by Victory and l. by Pax; just below the quadriga on extreme l. and r., two small figures of soldiers; on left side of arch in niche, figure of Mars; ornamental reliefs on the faces and plinths of the arch; in field, S – C. Rare type because the edge have been hammered to make it into a proto-contoriate.

cf. BMC p. 234, 183; C. 307; RIC 161, 143.

Ex G. Hirsch 48, Munich 22-24 Jun 1966, 372.
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Re: Proto-contorniate?
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2013, 04:36:38 am »
Fantastic!  A holiday addition to your collection?

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