Dear Members The question has been often debated regarding the purpose and meaning of the small superficial hole in the center of some provincial bronze (Greek...
Dear Pierre, Mouton translates as sheep when it's alive and mutton when it's to be eaten, but in this context I believe the corresponding English expression...
Pierre; While perhaps your missing drawing would clarify the matter, I fail to understand what the addition of rails to guide dies might have to do with the...
Dear List, The above topic about selling coins and realizing a profit, combined with Robert K's lament about his quirky computer program, reminds me about a...
Hello Doug I am sending to your private e-mail address the picture which I could not enclose under the Moneta_L group procedure. In fact the contrention is...
Matt, There are errors enough in printed works, but this doesn't seem to be one of them. RIC 58 gives as obv. "15C", referring to the list on p. 96. "15" is...
Hello everyone, This is, I think, my first ever commercial post to Moneta-L. So here goes! Running throughout the ENTIRE month of September, I will be offering...
I personally believe that the dimples are simply the tool mark from a milling, or lathing machine, used to make the blanks flatter prior to striking, which in...
I have had this liitle coin for years with no luck id'ing it in any reference. See following link or see it in the Moneta-L photo section in Don Hay's folder....
Lead is added to modern brass and bronze alloys to make them free machining. To some extent, lead does tend to melt during machining and act as a lubricant....
Hi All, I have a coin of Ptolemy VIII that shows this process very nicely. Please see: http://www.vcoins.com/ancient/jencek/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=4596 ...
Jim: I posed a similar query/observation a couple of months ago regarding the female breast-looking horseman on my Kings of Paeonia, Patraos AR tetradrachm....
hi, if anyone is interested, send me your e-mail and i will send you a pic, you can judge for yourself the coin was struck with quite worn dies, but i still...
Hello group! This current request is quite a bit more modern than my usual. No, no, I haven't fallen off the wagon. I have a request from a friend for a coin...
It is known for certain, at least where Seleucid coins are concerned, that these types of marks were made to the flans before striking. In the last year or so...
Hello dear members, Thank you for all your comments and valuable contribution to this discussion. To those intested, I uploaded a picture of the drawing...
Such coins, usually base silver, small denomination, can be found with Geneva dealers. If you are interested I may look for such coins locally, here in Geneva....
* Regarding Dave Welsh and Robert Kokotailo's comments on the deemed use of the "*dimple" to ensure that the blank shall present a well round surface and...
Given the size of these coins, depicting a cuirass could easily look like breasts. Roman Cuirasses had nipples and belly buttons. How about a one-breasted...
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The marks are definitely present in the flans before striking. " correct dave.. i have a ptolemic blank.. must have gotten lost on the way to be impressed.. ...
Thank you all very much for pointing me in the right direction. Now that I look at the coin more closely it is indeed a prow of a galley. Some of the examples...
Perhaps I did not make myself clear enough. Yes these marks are pre-striking. They are on what I called "the blank" and their source is in the "die" or mould...
Now this has me intrigued. Since reading the book I recommended here a few days ago, Savonarola....., by Lauro Martines, I've thought of coinage of Florence...
Dear Group, This note is forwarded from Parthia-L, with the "Araetheus" query of the last paragraph in particular directed to the members of this list. ...
I think I am in alpha mode with this search. http://www.mycoinportal.com/ARomanSearch.shtml I;m going to leave the filtering as is for the moment and start ...
Brian, Sorry for the slow reply. My Triton III catalogue was in storage in the basement and I did not have time to locate it before today. In regard to your...
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