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The Members' Gallery / Re: 2 Flavian hemidrachms added

« Last post by Ron C2 on Yesterday at 05:46:49 pm »

Those are some light hemidrachms. What is the rough diameter on those? I’m assuming an hair under 15mm with those weights?

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Ancient and Medieval Coin Identification Help / Re: small byzantine bronze

« Last post by Ron C2 on Yesterday at 05:43:36 pm »

That looks like a probable match to me. Your top image correlated to the right hand image of the reference coin, but the obverse of your coin has too little photo detail for me to be certain.

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Roman Provincial Coins Discussion Forum / Re: Strange detail on Nike

« Last post by Jochen on Yesterday at 05:05:05 pm »

"Fish" was the first suggestion of m wife too! But there is no connection to Nike.

I'm sorry, the detail on this Nike coin gives me no peace. The last suggestion from shanxi was that it could be a die break. Picture (1) from acsearch would show this. Picture (2) on my coin would then be an extension or a reworking of the die break.

Now I have found the picture of this coin at Varbanov. Picture (3) shows this coin. And here suddenly the left side of the base line is no longer a simple straight line, but just as bulging as the right side in picture (2). And in particular, it also bends upwards towards the Nike's garment.

I confess, I'm confused!

Kind regards
Jochen

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The Members' Gallery / Re: 2 Flavian hemidrachms added

« Last post by Jay GT4 on Yesterday at 04:40:09 pm »

Thanks guys.

Added 2 Flavian hemidrachms of Vespasian:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=187091
Nice find patina

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=187090
Nice Victory reverse

Thanks for looking!

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Medieval, Islamic and Crusader Coins Discussion Forum / Fals (?) for ID

« Last post by Skolot on Yesterday at 04:27:48 pm »

Hello. Please help me to identify this coin. 14 mm, 0,55 gr.

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Medieval, Islamic and Crusader Coins Discussion Forum / Fals for ID

« Last post by Skolot on Yesterday at 04:26:35 pm »

Hello. Please help me to indentify this coin. 15-18 mm, 1 gr.

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Ancient and Medieval Coin Identification Help / Greek Athena-Nike but which issue ? Help

« Last post by Darren L2 on Yesterday at 04:15:48 pm »

This coin was listed as Phrygia Laodikea 81-96 AD, it is 16mm but lettering along the right side does not match with Laodikea. Any help please

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Ancient and Medieval Coin Identification Help / Re: Akce of Suleyman I

« Last post by Jan P on Yesterday at 04:13:35 pm »

The right comment to this last coin is:
Aleppo Eyalet (Syria) - Sultan Selim II the Blond - struck 976 AH = 1569 AD.

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Roman Provincial Coins Discussion Forum / Re: Strange detail on Nike

« Last post by Virgil H on Yesterday at 03:39:31 pm »

I suppose that the object could be anything, but the first thing that comes to mind is a fish. But, it could also be a part of her garment or robe on the ground. Whatever it is, these "detail" things that Jochen brings up are very interesting.

Virgil

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Fake Coins and Notorious Fake Sellers / Re: Fake coins?

« Last post by Ken W2 on Yesterday at 03:25:17 pm »

Hello all: Respectfully, this discussion is a good example of why the one coin per thread rule is a good rule. So, is this entire lot of 36 coins is to be condemned ?  I'll accept that some of these demonstrate the die linkages discussed already, but that doesn't cover nearly all 36 coins. There aren't any Maximian or Galerius coins (can't remember which these five in the top row are) in that study. What does appear to be obverse and reverse die matches on four of those five (and two in the far right column) in the same lot would be of concern but if these obverses and reverses were used together, theoretically those could be legit. Also note that the coins in Martin's work all bear very similar fake patinas, while the patina on these coins is much more diverse and some apprear to have traces of silvering. Finally, it remains hard for me to fathom that people manufacture dies and produce differing flans in substantial quantities to produce fakes of relatively low value billon or bronze coins.