Retrograde

python

I'm sure this is a stupid question but what's retrograde mean?

cacheman

Wasn't that the name for a Soviet city?

ajaan

Moving backwards, like Asheville, NC. I don't know what it means in a numismatic context.

Aethelred

<< <i>Moving backwards, like Asheville, NC. I don't know what it means in a numismatic context. >>

ColinCMR

<< <i>Wasn't that the name for a Soviet city? >>



LOL!

Philip

<< <i>Wasn't that the name for a Soviet city? >>



You misspelled KGB.

MadMuffin

I believe it means that the letter or detail on the coin has been "mirrored" - that is, shown in the same "reversed" way as it would look in a mirror.

Marcel

CIVITAS

Opposite the usual sequence or order. A retrograde legend for example usually is read right to left, rather than the usual Western left to right.

Vespasian denarius with standard legend:
http://www.vcoins.com/civitas/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=1673&large=0

Vespasian denarius with retrograde legend:
http://www.vcoins.com/civitas/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=739&large=0

laurentyvan

Some other definitions as well. I didn't know that it was also a numismatic term...

verb: go back over
Example: "Retrograde arguments"
verb: move back
Example: "The glacier retrogrades"
verb: move in a direction contrary to the usual one; of stars and planets
verb: move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies
verb: get worse; fall back to a previous or worse condition
adjective: of amnesia; affecting time immediately preceding trauma
adjective: (astronomy) moving from east to west on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in a direction opposite to that of the Earth
adjective: moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction
adjective: going from better to worse

python

Thanks, everyone.

cacheman

no problem.....I guess I was thinking about Petrograd too.....

python

Cacheman, thanks a lot. I ended up e-mailing a dealer and asking what a Russian city had to do with
an English coin.

python

Now I guess I'll bid on it.Text

Lloyd

<< <i>Now I guess I'll bid on it.Text >>



Yeah $50k. Order me half dozen while you're over there

L

coinkat

You mean to tell me Retrograde is not the Capitol of Freedonia?

wybrit

And here I thought "retrograde" meant the process of inflating the grade of a coin that had been certified back in earlier days when grading was more conservative (or perhaps less understood).

Example: "graded MS-64 in an old holder - would grade MS-65 today."