First Attributions

I think you may have just found the RIC number for this coin. good job! Nice closeups they look much better then the first pictures.

your coins turned out pretty good. You already have a chi-rho reverse a zoo animal coin and two victories. Look these coins up on ebay and you will see many examples that are selling on there, and alot are not as nice as these three. I think this is a good start for you. It will add a boost of excitement for you with this part of the hobby. Have lots of fun and make sure that you show us your discoveries, after a bit your coins will look professionally cleaned. I havent really been cleaning coins lately but mostly looking for that green patina on larger coins soon I will buy more uncleaned coins I have to admit it is fun getting a rare coin from an uncleaned and it does happen.

BTW Gil-galad thanks for doing the extra checking in RIC to attribute the griffin looking right. I didn't see that in wildwinds.

Now that I can look at the obverses and reverses on wildwinds, that will help a lot. I had been going to the Forvm's sales and first look at the offerings then the sold to find the description. When I found it, THEN I would go over to wildwinds. But if you don't have RIC and it isn't in wildwinds or the Forvm's sales, where do you go from there? Thanks JW.

If it's mid-late 3rd century and later, I use Helveticas first, then Wildwinds, then anything else. If it's before mid-late 3rd century, I use Wildwinds first, then acsearch.info, then any other references. Another one that I use sometimes is CoinsCatalog.com.

Helveticas: http://www.catbikes.ch/coinstuff/coins-ric.htm