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Valued Member
Jordan
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 I want to know the price of this piece Roman silver [URL="http://arabsh.com]  [/URL] [URL="http://arabsh.com]  [/URL] Edited by rjscoins
08/13/2013 06:08 am
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 United States
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to the community It does appear to be a drachm of Sept. Severus but I'm having a hard time reading the first three letters on reverse legend which would ID where it was struck. If you can make them out post them it would really help. |
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 Jordan
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ok Hui 10.51 grams weight you a better picture in order to see clearly [URL="http://arabsh.com]  [/URL] Edited by rjscoins
08/13/2013 11:30 am
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United States
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Pictures didn't come out. Use the image hosting provided here.
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Jordan
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i think that's a fake, really strange legend...but I'm not an expert on the silver (or anything else). Edited by chrsmat71
08/13/2013 12:19 pm
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United Kingdom
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Looks like a fake to me also
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United States
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The reverse legend makes no sense to me. It just a bounch of letters that spell nothing. I must say though that the details of the bust and reverse are excellent. However it's shaping up that this is not a real coin.
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United States
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The letters are Greek provincial appx. AYTKAI C....EPOC / DHMAPXEX YPATOC.., which are pretty ligit,
but I have not found a coin with this reverse as of yet.
And what is green oxidation doing on a silver coin?
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United States
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That's the same spelling I got but it's not anything I can match to location.
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Jordan
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Green button on the widget Hui remainder of steel
Most silver in our country's iron out and we soaked and Tndifaa in acid material
This is a real piece 100% 100 and Haya are ready to be examined directly
Strangely enough, in this piece he hue king sitting on the chair and underneath the king himself carried in his hand and holds his right hand Rome Tower
I've looked it up three months ago on all Web sites did I find
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United States
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OK, I tracked down where the coin was supposed to have been made. Laodikeia ad Mare in Syria. Now lets see if I can find the coin.
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Jordan
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United States
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IMHO, it's beginning to look like a concoction of these three coins. I'm joining the fake camp. The more I look at the green stuff, the more it looks like casting wax.  Provincial legend  rudder and cornucopia......common rev. to several emperors  Tyche seated on rocks, river god below.....common rev. to several emperors |
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United States
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Casting wax is drained and burned off long before any metal is poured into a mold. A silver coin buried with copper (bronze) can pick up oxidized copper from its contact with other coins in a hoard. Or the coin may be a fouree in which case copper has leached out through openings in the silver. I cannot tell if the coin is genuine but there are explanations for green. I would also assume that the debasement which occurred during the reign of Severus was not restricted to the 'west'. Copper would have been the metal of choice for making the alloy. I have several Sestertii which have red iron oxide on the surface. This rust came from being buried with some iron object ...... Probably a weapon
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United States
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Well I've been searching for this coin for some time today and have not come across another like it. I've also check the fake coin data base and it doesn't show up there either. This could mean that what you have is either a real SS that has not been recorded or a fake that hasn't shown up yet on the data base yet.
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Posted 08/13/2013 11:02 am
