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Identification Help / Re: Newbie Requesting Help to Identify A Roman Coin

« Last post by Norman F on Today at 07:50:07 am »

Many thanks Pekka K, I will keep searching.

Norman

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Identification Help / Re: Newbie Requesting Help to Identify A Roman Coin

« Last post by Pekka K on Today at 07:37:33 am »

Obverse legend reads: DN CONSTA...

Reverse reads: FEL TEMP REPARATIO

This should point you to right direction.

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Fel%20Temp%20Reparatio

Pekka K

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Identification Help / Re: Help identify Old English Penny

« Last post by Alan M3 on Today at 07:23:07 am »

At first sight: a long cross penny of Edward. Reverse CIVITAS CANTOR? Stuck in Canterbury.
Edward I.

Great! Thanks you even found the mint!

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Identification Help / Newbie Requesting Help to Identify A Roman Coin

« Last post by Norman F on Today at 07:22:28 am »

Hi

I have acquired this 20 mm diameter coin and the only information I have is that is bronze and that it shows the Emperor Valentinian I on the obverse. My initial research suggests that it shows the Emperor diademed, draped and cuirassed.
My problem is that I cannot find any coin that matches the reverse. I think that the standing figure is facing to the left of the coin and that it is holding a labarum in the left hand. I cannot really make out what the shorter figure to the right of the coin depicts although I have noted other coins where the second figure is a prisoner being subject to some form of abuse.

I apologise for the poor quality of the images but I hope they are good enough for you to identify the coin for me.

Thanks

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Fake Coins and Notorious Fake Sellers / Re: Could it be original? 3,2 g, macedon drachm

« Last post by Din X on Today at 06:10:26 am »

Pictures larger than 2mb so I will add the Alexander cast fake 14,4g (mother was a fake from modern dies) here.
Same cast fake offered twice.

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Fake Coins and Notorious Fake Sellers / Re: Could it be original? 3,2 g, macedon drachm

« Last post by Din X on Today at 06:02:43 am »

The edge looks manipulated, file mark.
The weight is too low.

We have to be very careful, there are 2 different kinds of crystallisation.

Some metals like silver can start to crystallize depending on temperature, environment and they alloy (how much silver is in the alloy), this will really take a very long time to happen.

And there is another crytallisation, related to the cooling down process, I think it will occour if the metal cooled down too fast.
This crytallisation can be found on gold and silver bars and blancks and on cast fakes. And I was told about casted "Blumengeld" with this surface.

Imho the crystallisation is here from fast cooling down.

Another crystallized cast fake, auther did not understand that the crystallisation was there already from casting and has not been prduced later.

https://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/fakes/examples/fakeamphipolis01.htm

And two Alexander cast fakes with such surface 13,4g (mother was authentic) und 14,4g (mother was a fake from modern dies).

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Fake Coins and Notorious Fake Sellers / Re: Could it be original? 3,2 g, macedon drachm

« Last post by Din X on Today at 05:11:41 am »

I see a Sigma on obverse and no monogram below throne so it should be Price 1771


https://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.2771

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Identification Help / Re: Help identify Old English Penny

« Last post by Jan P on Today at 04:58:13 am »

At first sight: a long cross penny of Edward. Reverse CIVITAS CANTOR? Stuck in Canterbury.
Edward I.

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Roman Provincial Coins / Re: Hristova-Hoeft-Jekov Nikopolis Addenda #9

« Last post by Jochen on Today at 04:10:02 am »

#125

A new imitative type for Elagabal

Elagabal, AD 218-222
AE 18, 4.59g
obv. AVT K M AVR ANTWNINO
        Laureate head r.
rev. NIKOPOLITWN PROC ICT (from upper right)
       Bunch of grapes with tendrils
ref. a) not in AMNG
       b) not in Varbanov
       c) not in Hristova-Hoeft-Jekov (2021):
           cf.  No. 8(?).26(?).8.1
coll. Hoeft

Best regards
Jochen

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Coin of the Day / Re: Drusus Twin Sestertius

« Last post by Curtis JJ on Yesterday at 10:21:55 pm »

Great coin! I remember watching that one, really beautiful. (I got another Salton Coll. Sestertius with an early 20th provenance: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=181232.)

There were several notable collections included in Ars Classica XII -- I wonder if that was from E. Bissen of Copenhagen?

Was the Bourgey provenance on Salton's ticket/envelope or did you find that separately? (That's a good find, since it wasn't listed in the Ars Classica catalog either.) I paid special attention to all of Salton's coins with pre-1940 provenances. I've been wondering if any were among his father Felix Schlessinger's coin stock that was taken in 1940, and then later recovered by Mark Salton after the war. Apparently, he recovered many coins and books looted by the Nazis. I don't know if anyone kept track of which ones, but it would great to know.