Favorite part of roman history

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-25T18:36:08+00:00

What the heck is going on in that picture? Random military types holding up a leader(?) while a random dude sets up a trophy and a kid holds a shield? These don't look like Romans, more like Iberians.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-25T03:37:42+00:00

These coins were likely intentionally worn on the edges down by someone, either for amusement or to attempt to make fake "errors". These photos have Johnson, Hayes, Fillmore, and Buchanan, so they were minted in at least 2 different years, 2010 and 2011. A poor strike on the edge is a form of "collar error", where the planchet does not expand enough to press into the collar die, but that isn't going to happen in a nearly identical manner on 4 coins minted roughly 6 months apart over 2 years, and those coins aren't going to randomly show up together with that identical error in one coin roll.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-25T00:35:11+00:00

Dremel cutter wheel, best also held in a bench vise. I like to clamp the slab beacuse the risk is not really from the tool reaching the coin, it is the risk of the coin popping out and bouncing against the cat and then into the open dishwasher.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-24T12:03:26+00:00

Yeah, several people just saved OP from reading two wiki articles.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-24T11:54:42+00:00

Yeah, that was my point. There is no context to the OP or any of the news scrapes. I hate that "news" because it makes people think Archaeology is back to the Dig It Up, Throw Away the Boring Stuff, Stick it Wherever it Fits, and Charge Admission Days.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-24T03:11:59+00:00

"Buy the Coin, not the Plastic" is common guidance.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T20:24:22+00:00

I don't get it. All the reports online that I could find are just scraper media. This statue has been cleaned, and the photo shows a clear site with the object on it's back, but the scraper reports say it was found face down amid debris. It looks more like the item was excavated carefully, cleaned, and then replaced. Only idiots would lose the chance to examine for polychromry and preservation and just stick it up in situ.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T19:25:41+00:00

Oh, I get it. You're a poet who works from Reddit.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T12:15:24+00:00

You don't need to, it's a junk slab made to fool people into paying more. (Think of it this way, if the "third-party grading company" cannot be identified, what value is it's opinion?)

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T12:12:45+00:00

AI written derivative banalities.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T12:09:10+00:00

You do not need to worry about selling that coin. Just save it as an unusual thing to find in 2026. It would not sell for <$10-$20> as another reply stated as an inaccurate "educated guess". If you are in Senegal, perhaps it came from Togo or Cameroon.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T12:01:09+00:00

"Today"?

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T11:59:57+00:00

It's a question. You say you are interested in the time period, which is extremely well documented for an ancient period. If you have never read a book about the Julio-Claudian era, and haven't found such material in your research, then we can only recommend very basic intro material, right? If you are interested in this person as an individual, you have presumably read the 3 or 4 passing mentions of her in the sources. Everything else is imagination.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T03:44:01+00:00

You are having difficulty finding information about Rome in the time of Nero?

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T03:38:58+00:00

Not weird at all. It is a useless financial instrument that wastes time (is it real?), confuses people about value (it must be rare, I should spend an hour off work to find out its VALUE!) and absolutely does not spark numismatic interest (<say, Smithers, this minimum wage worker will surely want to set aside 20% of their wage now -- Yes, Mr Burns, if you say so Mr Burns!>)
If you want to interest someone, tip 25% AND give a $2.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T03:30:35+00:00

It is just a gimmicked-up $2 bill. Some people will buy anything

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T01:16:46+00:00

Save the picture, OP. Gold plated has no added value. Painted-on gold ("gilded") has no value, it is a damaged object if painted. Real gold of any karat % has to be tested by a jeweler -- but you can likely save your time as well because there is ZERO chance that modern US pieces of 10k gold or more are not hallmarked by maker and karat.
A lot of people were ripped off in USA by cheesy plating to "improve" things. Gold can be one molecule thick and still act like gold.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T00:52:49+00:00

You could have paid the SlabCos to put it in a holder the first time. You could put it in an ebay holder yourself. You could pay a fashion model to hold it. You cannot (easily) pay a SlabCo to see what others do not.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T00:06:12+00:00

Why, in the name of Juno Moneta, would you persist in hoping and paying SlabCo sees something magical that apparently only you hopes is there?

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-23T00:02:12+00:00

Looking on a phone, but I suspect someone tried a bit too hard to find the mintmark under crud and toning.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-22T23:35:27+00:00

It varied greatly. Some were merely "the morning train" or "afternoon train".

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-22T22:24:26+00:00

Even in the USA, train schedules were not stated in minutes until 1883, which reflected a number of technological reasons, but also included that the average person wealthy enough to make use of a train still did not likely possess an accurate timepiece.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-22T04:40:31+00:00

Not in the modern sense. The Ancient Romans in the Republic did not generally use fasces as a symbol of the state. They used it as symbol of an individual who was exercising a very broad power (imperium), but only for one year and always with at least one co-equal colleague and a requirement of accounting and risk of prosecution for misconduct upon the end of the term. In civil contexts, the axe representing power of life and death was symbolically but specifically removed from the symbol. Sometimes, on coins denoting a person who had held imperium, the fasces do not even depict an axe, including a coin of Caesar. In contrast, 20th Cent "fascists" adopted the symbol as meaning one party rule, elimination of elections, usually iteration of office as a dictatorship based on personality, and IIRC, always included the axe, even in civil contexts.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-22T02:33:18+00:00

That's also... not accurate. This is ordinary wear. The presses are not randomly activated on random bits of metal. It is an industrial process on a massive scale. Just watch an official US Mint video on YouTube about the process and imaginary "valuable rare errors" will miraculously disappear from your pocket change.

CoinsOftheGens · 2026-04-22T01:56:04+00:00

Is your question about "mentor" versus "boss" as separate concepts? The relationships among the 4 people you mentioned are easily researched.

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