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Ancient Coin Forum / Re: Meepzorp's coin website

« Last post by Meepzorp on Yesterday at 12:05:05 am »

Hi folks,

Today, I added one coin to my following website page:

Greek, Syria, Apameia:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/meepzorp/g_syria_apameia.htm

I also added 2 medals to my following website page:

Medals, Italy, Genoa, Part 1 (last 2 medals):

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/meepzorp/medalitl_genoa_pt01.htm

These are new arrivals. I received them within the past few months.

Meepzorp

The Members' Gallery / Re: 2 Flavian hemidrachms added

« Last post by Jay GT4 on April 16, 2024, 10:06:55 pm »

13mm and 15mm. I've added it to the descriptions

Greek Coins Discussion Forum / Re: What would YOU do ?

« Last post by Virgil H on April 16, 2024, 09:19:45 pm »

I served in Iraq twice and Afghanistan once. Any looting is greatly exaggerated by US soldiers. In Iraq, a small detachment from my unit was at Babylon and every time the insurgents mortared the position and hit the ruins, we got blamed. To the point that they moved the base. I had a rock confiscated from me when I left by Customs that was in my pocket. Looting happened I am sure, but by Iraqis mainly.

This totally sounds like a scam and there are many scams using US forces as pretext, mostly romantic scams looking for money. I bought a coin in Ghazni in Afghanistan from a street vendor I posted here years ago, "an obvious tourist fake" and it was so bad Joe didn't even ask for a fake report. Very, very few Americans had any access to loot anything. And the US was totally stupid when it came to allowing us to take "war trophies" to the point it was nuts. No flags, no nothing. All I got out was a small tile from one of Saddam's palaces that was lying on the ground when I found it (like 30 mm wide) and a small piece of shrapnel I dug out of my living quarters after a mortar attack (and there was no reason not to be allowed to have that, but I had to hide it). If Customs had found that, they would have taken them. I guarantee no wide scale looting of coins or anything else happened by us. I bet you are getting targeted because of Wildwinds and most, if not all, are actually not Americans and the coins are probably fakes or non-existent and pictures taken off the Internet.

Virgil

Forum numizmatyki antycznej po polsku / Re: Frustracja

« Last post by Edward D2 on April 16, 2024, 07:46:29 pm »

Greetings,

I saw your comment, and I am sympathetic to your frustration and complaint. I wanted to publish all of the coin photos, but the editors refused because of the amount of space it would take up (another 30+ pages of colored photos) and financial cost. This is often the case when an author does not publish images of all the coins (someone else always says no). I would share them with you, but the rights are owned by the Eregli Karadeniz Museum. I hope to publish all of the coins with images as soon as possible.

As I was rushed to complete the project, there will obviously be some errors. Would you kindly point out the misattribution and I will correct it (and give you credit of course once all of the coins are published)?

Best regards,
Edward

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

« Last post by Joe Sermarini on April 16, 2024, 06:38:18 pm »

I think it is more die wear than anything else. Metal flowed from the foot down the exergue line expanding it. Perhaps the exergue line was engraved all the way into the legend, facilitating flow in the opposite direction as well.

The Members' Gallery / Re: 2 Flavian hemidrachms added

« Last post by Ron C2 on April 16, 2024, 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?

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

« Last post by Ron C2 on April 16, 2024, 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.

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

« Last post by Jochen on April 16, 2024, 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