ominus1

bummer...

34 minutes ago, maridvnvm said:

So I have to disagree with @ominus1 here and say that it is fake.

it very well could be(and lQQks as tho it is)...as  said, i've been schooled on this before....:)..never underestimate the forgers...

..ya know i walked around the pond for a spell, then i just jumped in!...i got this one in today and i think i see a shield on both sides on this coin...and i'm back in the saddle!...yesterday i won 3 coins of the Medici in the inAsta 110 of Italy... Lorenzo ll, Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII..(i'll showsem when i gitsum :P)..and im bidding on another for the end of the month (so far)..welp, i've never seen another coin like this one so if anybodys got a better perspective on it i'd like to hear...

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they remind me of Gallic coins in their style...idk anything about these types...

...idk but it seems like those French have a different word for EVERYTHING! 😛

On 12/22/2023 at 4:51 PM, expat said:

not worth faking.

i was of that school of thought but then a peep showed a bunch of  'cheap-if-ther're-real LRB"s' that WERE fake......just sayin'....:)...but i do believe Topcats is legit...

...this coins a little later ..tribute denar paid by Levon IV, overstruck in Arabic by the Mamluks around 1332...Mohammed Al-Nasr i believe..

great finds G68...(yeah that french coin is a ways from home ain't it?! ^^)

...lQQks a might rusty to me...9_9

...i've gotta get a new family photo of the bunch...:)...(and a tip o de hat to @Ryro for me Venus reverse Julia ^^)

...very kool artifacts! 🙂

...a Dan-D fine coin of your namesake here....:)

..i've never seen anything quite like it.....it appears to be cast.....

4 hours ago, Al Kowsky said:

hot number in her youth 😮.

...my God she was wasn't she?!...time is the robber of youth indeed...6_6

...this portrait of ole Didius reminds me of my avitar of John Carridine from the Twilight Zone 

1 hour ago, Tejas said:

There is currently a collection of Löser for sale. One shows a Wild Man. It is a Löser for 4 Taler, weighing 115 g.

 

...i think i see where this idea come from...^^

...i see a connection of your ancestor's coat of arms with the Medici's, my new rabbit hole interest...:D...

haha!...that's a fine coin and a great rabbit hole to go down @DonnaML! 🙂

.Sept. Severus...neat coin...idk about the finish ...:)

..my 1st in the collection is my impulse buy (probably paid too much,but) of Cosimo l, a 'junior' member of the ruling Medici's and he was to have great impact on the  arts and knowledge by his patronage of scholars and artist...purdy much the last to do so as far as i know now...:)  now i await my Cosimo lll coin and lQQk at the others i need...

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Italian States, Toscana (Tuscany, Grand Duchy). Cosimo I de' Medici AR Giulio. Firenze, 1572. • COS • M • MAGNVS • • DVX • ETRVRIÆ •, crowned Medici arms, date above / • IOA • B • PROT • • E • COS • CONS •, St John the Baptist and St Cosimo standing facing, DIVIS below. Pucci 111; MIR 170/3; CNI 302-5; Galeotti LXVI, 9-15. 2.84g, 27mm, 3h. Holed & Cilpped

..i have to admit i've bid on a few manuscripts...kool q.g.:)

...Phillip ll, along with his family, take the prizes for several such types...

Elagalabus?....(well, maybe not, but it reminded me of this coin)

...the 2 Valerians....:)