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7 hours ago, John Conduitt said:

Interesting. What is it?

To be honest JC, we can only guess...Button? Part of the costume?

7 minutes ago, antwerpen2306 said:

How do you know it is Gepid/Avar period? I don't know much of this period, so I am interested .

This female portrait is typical of that period, so I concluded that it probably belonged to someone from these two tribes...

On 4/23/2024 at 7:32 PM, expat said:

Left facing portraits are severely lacking in my collection. So I made some amends to the situation by winning a cheap coin at a recent auction.

Probus AE Antoninianus. Siscia, 279 AD.
IMP C M AVR PROBVS P F AVG, radiate bust left, wearing imperial mantle and holding eagle-tipped sceptre / VIRTVS PROBI AVG, trophy standing between two captives. RIC 820, Cohen 942.
22 mm, 4,87 g

Post your left facing portraits or captives reverses

Gepid/Avar period, bronze appliqué, female portrait...

The lid of the lead box in which the Theriac balm was stored...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theriac

Hadrian ae as, Salus..

Probus antoninian, Adventus and Alex Severus, limes denarius...

On 3/27/2024 at 3:09 PM, seth77 said:

Do you have any with cat paws?

Hi Seth, I had it about 15 years ago, also as part of a brick...I gave it to a person who is crazy about cats...

A.Pius ae as, Britannia type, two denarii, follis and antoninian, iron key...

21 minutes ago, Ryro said:

That's an incredible piece! How many bricks do you have now with animal imprints?

I no longer collect parts of bricks, but only whole ones.. But in this case, I couldn't resist...

17 minutes ago, Ryro said:

That's an incredible piece! How many bricks do you have now with animal imprints?

Hi Ryro, I have 9 pieces so far...

A dog's/wolf's paw frozen in time....18x15 cm/7x5.9o inches...

On 3/20/2024 at 8:57 PM, KenDorney said:

This was offered to me recently by a well known dealer.  He did not agree with me that it was tooled.  You will likely see it in an auction soon. 

Tooling..The best way to turn an original coin into a fake one....

Ae as, 10.5o gr and beautiful colors on Roman glass fragments...

1 hour ago, Heliodromus said:

Are you saying that Saul was the one who did the cleaning? If so, does he generally do this as a paid service, and how much does he charge for it?

 

Hi Heliodromus, my friend cleans coins for me, but he uses a similar method as Saul,that's why I post his brochure....

On 3/12/2024 at 1:47 PM, ela126 said:

oh i love this. Super job. Dirt looks like it wanted to come up. How long did you work on it?

http://www.romanorum.com/docs/A Method for cleaning ancient coins. Romanorum.com.pdf

12 hours ago, DonnaML said:

Fantastic! I love it.

"True pocket size monuments on which the hand of time

has laid patinas whose colors are matched solely on the palettes of Flemish painters..."

"THE SUPERB PATINAS OF THE SESTERTII OF IMPERIAL ROME"

ELIO BIAGGI

On 3/12/2024 at 1:47 PM, ela126 said:

oh i love this. Super job. Dirt looks like it wanted to come up. How long did you work on it?

It took him almost 4 hours....

Hadrian as....

Elagabal fouree denar, 2.5o gr., bronze hairpin and bronze stylus which belonged to someone who really didn't like to write...

Provincials,a few large bronzes, Vespa denarius....

8 hours ago, Limes said:

Very nicely done! Did it takes a long time to clean it?

My friend tells me that it was cleaned in 3 hours...

14.5o gr...Jupiter on reverse...The condition is not excellent, but it is the best that could be obtained from this piece....

Here are some coins from today and a coin I found yesterday...It's either an ae as or a dupondius, 14.7o grams, but I can't tell which one it is...M.Aurelius, Commodus, Macrinus?