ominus1

..from what i see they legit to me...:)

...i'm sorry but it lQQks to be  a copy to me also....:(

....well where's the damn painting @ Bro?!   ^^

..super nice @AncientJoe!..plus there's some other very fine ones posted here...i have much worn but respectable denarius of the man...:)

..idk who the seller is but i really can't see any problems that couldn't be overcome with ebays guarantees...i wouldn't sweat it till its time...^^

6 hours ago, Ed Snible said:

Aftercast from pierced specimen:

Italy, Florence. No Date (after 1465). Artist uncertain. 70 mm. 101 g.
Obv: MAGNVS COSMVS MEDICES P P P; Cosimo Medici bust left
Rev: PAX LIBERTASQVE PVBLICA - FLORENTIA; personification of Florence holding an orb and triple olive branch
Heritage, 2019 March 14 Weekly World and Ancient Coin Auction #231911, lot #62229
 

The auction house did not mention it, but this is an aftercast of a pierced specimen.  A plugged hole can be seen at 12 o'clock.  At first I thought it was an early aftercast, due to the good details.  However, the Harvard Art Museum suggests their example, which greatly resembles this one, was made in Paris circa 1902 by Georges Liard Sr. (French; active 1895-1913).

There has been a lot of speculation about the identity of the artist.  Flaten believes the maker was Leonardo da Vinci's teacher Andrea del Verrocchio (ca. 1435–1488). George Hill suggested Cristoforo di Geremia (1410–1476) or Niccolò Fiorentino (1418-1506). The curators of the Slater Memorial Museum offer Michelozzi Michelozzo (1396–1472). Heiss and Armand attributed the medal to Donatello.

very nice Ed! :)..the one i was looking at was a uniface one but i know the original had both sides detailed.......i really like yours! 

1 hour ago, Marsyas Mike said:

Interesting post, @ominus1.... don't get me started on metals - about two weeks ago I accidentally bought a 19th century Papal metal and I am going into collector's feeding frenzy mode...I need help.  From an old CT post:

A few years ago I lucked into a big batch of 17th century engravings based on gems and seals from Greece and Rome. Here is what they are:

Leonardo Agonstino Gemmae et sculpturae antiquae depictae, [Amsterdam: Abraham Blooteling, 1685]

The work consists of "engraved gem illustrations mostly taken from the antique with annotations by Giovanni Bellori, the noted Italian antiquary. the text is little more than a factual explanation of the objects depicted, but the engravings are remarkable for 'relatively little detail' but done in a 'clever, fresh buoyant manner'" (Sinkankas quoting C. W. King, Antique Gems and Rings). The designs in Part I are mainly portraits of one kind or another plus some of animals, the designs in Part II are of gods, heroes and philosophers in various poses and activities plus some animals. All the plates have a title at the top and below the name of the gem on which they are carved (cristallo, onice, lapis lazzali etc). The designs are by Agostini and the engravings by Giovanni Battista

Galestruzzi. Agostini (1593-1669) was born near Sienna and served as antiquary to Francesco Cardinal Barberini. He was appointed by Pope Alexander VII as superintendent of antiquities in the Papal States, and he directed in Rome the excavations of the Forum and of thermae near the church of San Lorenzo in Panisperna.

And here are a few examples of things we'd see on ancient coins - Septimius Severus & Julia Domna:



Bacchus in a biga pulled by panthers - meow!



Faustina the Elder -


Isis & Serapis -


Asclepius, Hygia & Telesphoros - no offense to the God of Healing, but Telesphoros gives me the creeps:


A trophy and a deer(?) -



Sabina, wife of Hadrian - 

I have a couple dozen of these. They frame nicely - here's an Unknown Poet - Poeta Incognito - good name for an alternative band:

...haha...well, who am i to 'not collect' anything....(and that's kool stuff you got there Bro! ^^)..my house, shed and barn are fULL of past stuff i'be collected...but metals for some reason don't seem worth what they are going for to me, but the metals are coin like and collectable...there is another metal by a famous engraver of a person thee is no coins of but the same persons still got it all these years later and hasn't sold it yet

last week i got a copy of  Botticellis 'Young Man with a Metal' for it shows a metal of Cosimo the elder, since this years focus is on the Medicis. and lo and behold one came up for sale the very next day in an auction.. it was a fine looking piece from a renowned collector... it was however a remake of the originals. (in fact the one the lads holding in the painting has a marked scratch on it) and the authors name is not known..it got 6 bids and i lost out so it's still a want. i always have a hard time justifying buying tokens and metals for my collection of 'coins'..but things like this make it more palatable ...i got a few more art works coming featuring those things we collect as coiners   Post some artwork of coins, metals or whatever feels good Peeps! 

...the last one sounds like the set up then enter closer...much used in time share sales....^^

..i seen this in one of the auction houses i lQQked at . for Medici coins...:)

Philip the Handsome^[b] (22 July 1478 – 25 September 1506), also called the Fair, was ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy from 1482 to 1506, as well as the first Habsburg King of Castile (as Philip I) for a brief time in 1506....father of Charles V and Ferdinand l, HRE/s..

1 hour ago, DonnaML said:

Is that Jack Klugman?

...yup! they were the only 2 in the entire episode...:)

...i'm kinda like @KenDorney..i have many items most folks don't have...anybody else got a picture of Fats Brown (Jonathon Winters) hanging on their wall?.. Twilight Zone original 3rd season, '60-61(oops)A Game of Pool"...it was the only  time he played a serious dramatic role in his career.

..for a long time i was under the prejudice view that less expensive coins weren't forged ....but that was wrong and i would reckon we must assume that  a percentage of our own collections stand a good chance of being forged ..

2 hours ago, KenDorney said:

a fake of a fake

not unheard of

2 hours ago, KenDorney said:

a fake of a fake .

always a thought in the collectors mind ..:)..i like to have enough evidence(and opinions) to convince myself that my fakes ain't fakes...><

 

a fake coin is a fake coin..but a Becker is collectors item....kool Ken...after learning about Becker it took me several years to get one...so i got 2. plus the books (parts one and two) by G F Hill ..it adds a lil character to ones collection i'd reckon.. 🙂

...i have this Magic Lantern from back in the days before batteries and electricity ....but of course the Douglass dreamed they owned one 2 in an episode when they traveled in the way back machine...^^

..purdy kool! :)..reminds me of trick coins....

very nice early denarius of Nero...a trophy indeed1 :)..i have two later denarii issues of Salus and Jupiter in my Nero section  

..i've been collecting so long that when i saw the name i had the portrait in my minds eye before seeing it....:)

i have one of each facing but not of captive reverse...

..purdy dang nice presi...:)and HB 2 ya belated as it is...

..kool Ryro!.....i got out a Pyyros bronze and one of my man-faced bull coins is a bronze from Campania with  left facing Apollo obverse (2nd pic bottom right)..:)...

..well, i saw it...it was awe inspiring .almost a religious experience.....i got the pic to proof it  ^^ still kinda dark here too....

4 hours ago, kirispupis said:

I don't have any coins that I recall are believed to have been influenced by an eclipse (though I have a few from comets). However, we did head out to see the eclipse when it was visible in Oregon several years ago, and I took this photo.

My parents actually live in the path of totality, but the airfares were crazy to head back there. 

that's kool1...imma get one today! 🙂