Greetings All,
My coins are here and I am on my way to the contest now. Here are the coins I've got along with my initial thoughts. I am not looking for
attribution help, but I think it may be amusing to see how correct my first impressions turn out to be:
Left to Right)
1)
Tacitus,
Salvs Publi with a very fragile
silvering. I'll follow up with another post showing my cleaning progress and thoughts.
2) A
type I haven't seen before, The
portrait looks like it is in the
style of a provencial, but the
reverse looks like a typical imperal
reverse, though I've never seen the K's between the standards before.
3)Definate roman imperal, the
reverse is new to me and should be easy to attribute
4)
Standard roman imperal, we'll see if it's
RIC ends up being C (my guess) or Rn something.
5) Now the hairy coin. This is a greek or
AE4 Provencial that is set in concrete-like encrustations. We'll see if I can attribute it or not, this is the only coin that will prevent me getting into round 5.
Any scanning advice is welcome, though my scanner is a
cheap scanner that came bundled with my computer. If I can ever find a camera that will take pictures of an
AE4 in focus, I'll be upgrading to it.
Bob