hotwheelsearl

Nice example! Mine has a pretty poor strike, but it was cheap.

Can anybody do me a solid and post a screenshot of said coins?

Here's my disgusting, BD'd, $4 example.

I suppose it would highly depend on where you’re going and how strict they are.

when I went to Mexico in 2018, I brought along with me 5 different cameras. There was a sign at the airport saying that if one brings more than 2 cameras, they will be charged a sort of tax on the rest of them (I suppose they assume you bring multiple cameras to sell or something).

Nobody ever said anything about the cameras and nobody attempted to charge me a tax.

I did get my dried mango strips confiscated though 😞

Gallienus. Authentic, not much reason to fake a relatively common coin

I found my tets! I tend to go for the ones with all the minerals rather than the ones with just the bronze.

these two have some amazing azurite crystals, combined with cuprite and malachite. I wonder why Egyptian (and Chinese!) coins tend to have this mineralization more than coins of other regions.

Phil, nice items but boy that photo resolution leaves much to be desired.

Chinese coins always seem to have some crazy colors.

This song dynasty 10 cash has the works - malachite, azurite, and cuprite!

Alexandrian tets often have nice minerals. This has some blue azurite. I would have posted a close up, except I appear to have LOST all of my tets. Cannot find them anywhere. This makes me extremely sad.

Wine, the queen. Sounds about right on a Tuesday afternoon. 

Here's a curiosity, it's possibly a limes, but could well be a fourree core with all silver removed.

While we're here, here is my most lustrous silver Gallienus, though the weight is so low it MUST be cut with something else.

Here's a full-silver version with rare obv AND rev legends.

And here's one plated with some nice, shiny, tin or something else.

1 hour ago, Amarmur said:

It kind of looks like a polish-Lithuanian common wealth coin from the 1600s 

That’s a good point. The letters don’t seem to be Greek or Latin, or maybe it’s just the odd shape of them. 
 

Plus the reverse simply doesn’t ring any sort of bell on an ancient coin 

Rotated, cropped, and enhanced. 

Not sure if I got the reverse correct though. Can’t make heads or tails.

looks like a pseudo-autonomous bronze of…somewhere, possibly.

I actually bought a few hundred of those buttons in a lot once. Not sure why. What am I gonna do with 200 Spanish buttons now!?

I bought this ant for a whopping $45, more than I've ever spent for an ant before. However, the owner of this particular store went a-hunting for new product (since I've been such a regular customer I bought up most of their stock!), and found some special stuff in the back.

This is one of them. Gallienus never fails to surprise with his reverses. I've never seen or heard of Luna Lucifera, but here we are! Diana as Luna, wearing crescent helmet and holding a lit torch.

The surfaces are a little rough, especially on the obverse, but the reverse held up quite well. Here's an extreme macro glamor shot of Luna!

Too bad. Can’t win them all, often tooling, if not advertised, can only truly be appreciated in person. 

were you not able to request a refund?

2 hours ago, Parthicus said:

Thanks @DLTcoinsfor the useful info and links.

@hotwheelsearl: The mintmark's not quite as clear as it could be on this specimen, but this illustration may help:

 

Thanks. I thought those squiggles were parts of the fire attendants arms. Lol

Uhhhh. Can you point out or outline on the image where this mint mark is? I can’t tell a thing from these coins 

Here's a Divus Caesar. These seem to be be pretty expensive, unless you get a nice delam(?( that kills Ceasar harder than his compatriots did.

Rhoemetalkes and Pythodoris:

Gordian III and Tranquilina:

On 9/3/2023 at 1:09 AM, DLTcoins said:

In another forum recently, someone posted an Egyptian tetradrachm of Divus Carus. It took me a little by surprise. The interesting thing, to me at least, is that while Latin has both divus ("apotheosis") and deus ("deity"), Greek has only θεος ("god"). Therefore, rather than DIVO CARO ("to the divine Carus"), the Greek is ΘΕΩ ΚΑΡΩ ("to the god Carus"). Θεος is also of course the word used for God in Christian scripture. Coins such as this must have caused quite a stir among Egyptian Christians of the day. Αφιερωσις on the reverse means "dedication" which I assume is the equivalent of Latin consecratio (image courtesy CNG).

 

Here's my budget version. A little encrustation on the obv, but I will never complain at $15.

Thanks for the translation of the reverse. I misread the greek into apheresis, which refers to either the removal of blood from the body to separate the blood from plasma; or referring to the loss of a sound from the beginning of the word.

I do love the funeral pyre here, it's rather unlike the wedding cake of APi or the pyres of Claudius II. How cool.

Saw this cool one on the latest Roma auction.

50 minutes ago, Nerosmyfavorite68 said:

There obviously was something going on with corrosion.  I Think the weird eye is from the stuff being dug out.  The fields are also suspiciously corrosion-free on the obverse.

I think it’s more of a case of smoothing and less of strict tooling, though there are some who argue they’re the same.

IMO smoothing is less criminal than tooling, as it doesn’t really add or subtract true details to the coin