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Valued Member
Spain
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These are the images of my aureus of TITUS what´s you opinion of it?   sear 2420 |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Any aureus of Titus gets a  from me  |
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Moderator
 United States
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I would love to owe any Aureus. It's a nice coin, but seems a bit odd to me. It is very worn more so than I would expect for a coin of this type even that old. And there are some deposits on the reverse that I would not expect to see on a gold coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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GOLD! nice! it just clicked that aureus= gold coin, for the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus of staph infection fame, the aureus refers to gold....looked around a bit, guess it is sometimes known as "golden staph"...which I didn't know, and don't know why it is called that. anyone know why? I'm the anatomy guy at school not the micro guy. sorry for tangent....but I found that interesting. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wikipedia: "S. aureus is a facultatively anaerobic, Gram-positive coccus, which appears as grape-like clusters when viewed through a microscope, and has large, round, golden-yellow colonies, often with hemolysis, when grown on blood agar plates.  The golden appearance is the etymological root of the bacterium's name; aureus means "golden" in Latin." |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice coin, I want one....  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Aureii of the first Century are of high purity gold, around 95%, and therefore are quite soft, and thus wear easily.
In this period, gold coins were used as a store of wealth far more than they were used for circulation, but nevethless were intended for circulation.
Therefore, it does not surprise me at all that this coin has sustained this amount of wear, and still have no doubt that it is quite genuine.
A general review of aureii available for sale on VCOINS will show at least one or two with at least the same amount of wear that this coin has sustained.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3546 Posts |
Upon closer inspection of this HA coin at 9 o'clock on the obverse I noticed these horizontal lines on the field. What is the source or what ancient process created these lines?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7066 Posts |
Parallel lines are from filing of the die, I believe. Whether filing was done prior to engraving, or afterwards to remove burrs from the engraving, or both before and after...I don't know.
Edited by Kamnaskires
08/30/2016 07:35 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I thought those lines would be from metal flow due to strike.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
6130 Posts |
Very nice ancient gold there!
Just curious... What sort of things were aureii actually used for? I also thought that their purpose was to store value or maybe buy land or many heads of slaves/cattle?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I thought those lines would be from metal flow due to strike. Flow lines from strikes are radial. Parallel lines indicate filing of the die, or so I've read. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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He sure reminds me of George III.  |
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Posted 10/17/2012 2:16 pm
