Adlocvtio (No, Really!) - Galba Sestertius - Page 2

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Ben Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 4208 Posts	Posted 08/22/2013 05:39 am Arrived. Going to the local Finds Liason Officer on tuesday (hopefully) - I'm taking it to a local historian later today to see if they can make sense of it. The other coin it came with is afake as you like but I'm still feeling hopeful. Beautifully preserved - shiny fields. The sheet of lead was cut with sheers. the ridges around the design which slightly intersect do not seem to be part of the die - rather, it seems someone wanted to cut it out. Slightly worrying, but perhaps it was just for show. Seems it took a pounding - flattened out the top of the design without touching the fields. Perhaps it was defaced - thatwould lend o the die trial idea. Galba is looking good and two of the soldier's faces are still extant. Lovely thing - looks like its going to be hard to mount for display though. Not that that will be happening any time soon with the places it will be going (Unless someone can tell me unequivocably that its a modern fake). Report this Post to the Staff
Dutchgulden Pillar of the Community Netherlands 1204 Posts	Posted 08/22/2013 11:49 am doesn't look like a modern fake! I'm curious about the facts! Report this Post to the Staff
chrsmat71 Pillar of the Community United States 4971 Posts	Posted 08/22/2013 12:21 pm keep us posted! Report this Post to the Staff
Ben Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 4208 Posts	Posted 08/22/2013 12:36 pm I havent found a single modern reproduction of this coin on record. Theres a Paduan medal which is the same but bears the inscription ADLOCVT (The IO is dropped). I havent found many good images of examples (just 2 seperate examples) but both are from different dies and neither is a die match. The variation between them is enough to allow for the variation on this one (Ive been concentrating on the position of the standards). Im trying to get in touch with the local FLO to have them take a look. The local museum said that they visit there 2nd saturday of each month, but thats ages away. Ill phone FLO and see where they are next, then I'm going to the British museum with the thing - perhaps ill be able to compare it to another example, if the BM holds one. Report this Post to the Staff
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