determinatie gevraagd / hybride Urbs - Constantinopolis

[adrianus]

Hi all,

OK. My reasons for classifying my coin as barbarous are:

STYLISTICALLY
1) The styling of the helmet border, with hair all along the border and no trace of an ear (despite the hair) is completely different to official issues
2) The lettering on both obverse and reverse is mismatched and mis-spelt.
3) The wolf is shown with only one leg
4) The stars are completely unlike those encountered on official coins; they are effectively globes
5) The left-hand twin on coins from Siscia usually wears a cloak
6) The posture of the wolf with the head pointing down and slightly forward is not the same as on official coins from Siscia
OTHER REASONS
7) The coin is a mule
The weight (1.48g) is very light for an official coin

To illustrate what I mean I attach an official coin for comparison. Not mine unfortunately  but one I saw on ebay.
By the way, Lex, why do you say the official specimen of dabber's coin is rare? Official Constantinopolis coins from Siscia are coming onto the market in huge numbers from the Balkans.

Regards,

Adrianus 

[aurelianus]

De thread is vanaf hier gesplitst,
het interessante vervolg vind U hier
mvg A 

[Goodies]

Hi @adrianus, this thread was split by the moderator. I now will move the part of my submit that refers to the Urbs in this thread over here. You already commented on that. The rest of this thread is now

Relevantie zilvergehalte.. winst ? - relevance of silver content.. profit ?

 
Lex


hoi @adrianus, I was referring to this submit of Gantois321, where he states he found VRBS ROMA obverse with a Constantinopolis (Victoria) reverse on an official version from Trier. This coin is R5 in his reference, I trust that is RIC or a RIC-related website. One may say R5 is rare, as far as I know it means "only 1 example found"..

As we know, RIC did not take barbaric imitation into account, so.. dabber's example may very well be.. nr #2 known ?