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Gallienus Antoninianus w/ Clash

bronzematbronzemat Posts: 2,666 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Here is my bargain Gallienus I picked up for $12 awhile ago. I only got it at first cause I liked the temple reverse, toning and it was going cheap. Considering he is my favorite emperor this is my only second coin of him.

Day after it arrived I looked at it more and saw it was a die clash on the reverse, which made me happier since they are my favorite errors.

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Gallienus (253 - 268 A.D.)
AR Antoninianus
O: GALLIENVS P F AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust right.
R: DEO MARTI, Mars in temple.
Colonia Agrippinensis (Cologne) mint, 258-259 A.D.
21mm
3.45g
RIC 10

Reverse Die Clash

Comments

  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,678 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's a nice looking piece. Your imaging is really nice.
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  • NiceCurrencyNiceCurrency Posts: 885 ✭
    excellent piece, he looks like a big softy here with a fluffy beard image
    cool reverse type, my gallienus has a deer on the reverse, I believe its a pretty common coin

    and your images are great indeed! image
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,878 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks like really good silvering on that. In fact, it looks like a "good silver" coin! A no-brainer for twelve bucks! image

    I'm having trouble making out the clash, though. With that die-fatigued reverse, I just don't see it. Give us some pointers to help spot it?

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  • nicholasz219nicholasz219 Posts: 1,386 ✭✭✭
    LM, look within the temple itself. Like a shadow of a head turned to the left.

    Nice piece, bronzemat. I dig it.
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,878 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>LM, look within the temple itself. Like a shadow of a head turned to the left. >>

    Aha! I see the outline of the nose in his mirror image, now! Thanks!

    Geez. For me, that was almost like one of those "magic eye" posters or whatever the heck they call 'em. Y'know, those things that look like a cross between a kaleidoscope and an LSD trip? That you're supposed to stare at until you're almost cross-eyed and then you'll supposedly see some 3-D image? I never do.

    At least I can sorta make this one out. After it's been pointed out to me, anyway. image

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  • nicholasz219nicholasz219 Posts: 1,386 ✭✭✭
    Ugh, you should have read the whiny emails from me to bronzemat about trying to figure out a legend on an Elagabalus denarius. What a nightmare. In other words, it happens to all of us, in one way or another. image
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  • AethelredAethelred Posts: 9,291 ✭✭✭
    Bronzemat, what is it about Gallineus that makes him your favorite emperor?
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