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Ty Gemberling

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  1. Hi everyone! I figured I would post a few closeup images of this coin, since not many are out there. I also want to thank you all and Wildwinds.com for everything. A big thank you!!! Dane was a HUGE help. It if were not for him, I am not sure how long this would have went unanswered. For everyone out there that uses Wildwinds.com, all of the effort that goes into it are unpaid. The website costs money to keep it up and going. So I plan to donate to them for the assistance and please feel free to do the same if or if not, you have used them! Link below. Ty Gemberling Donate to Wildwinds.com (via PayPal link)
  2. Thanks Henri! I am really surprised with how rare this piece is, or uncommon. Dane from WildWinds.com said this below. "BMC 1924,0107.9. It's odd that the RIC authors did not spot this in the British Museum. From the BMC number, it was obviously acquired in 1924 and RIC IV was written 12 years later." So the BMC # is British Museum number. The C may stand for catalog, I am not sure.
  3. Thanks Mike! I bought a large ancients collection over the course of a year. I sent all the ones in that he paid a higher amount for and lucked out. I knew I could not find it in WildWinds, but I did not expect this to be so rare.
  4. Hi everyone! I have some exciting news!!! Please see the emails below from WildWinds. I had reached out to them, and below were their responses. I am working with Dane on getting pictures to them of just the coin so they can add it to the website. Pretty Cool!!! Question is, what's the value now?? (I am not very concerned about the price, but when I do go to sell it, I will hopefully have an idea of what it is worth) "Just found the BMC page with your coin type on it: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1924-0107-9 It cites RIC IV, 60 but that is only the general type, listed only as laureate head right. It also cites "RE5" (which is more commonly known as BMCRE), vol.V: Pertinax to Elagabalus (113, p.39) but I don't have that volume, I only have vols. I, II, III, and VI. The cited article "Mattingly & Salisbury 1924 / A find of Roman coins from Plevna in Bulgaria (210-238)" was in Numismatic Chronicle 1924 and refers to this exact same BMC coin. In the summary list of Cohen numbers in that large hoard on p. 212 in that Num. Chronicle, it has "396 var (bust draped)". Mattingly apparently did not attach any special significance to this coin, there is - in contrast to the coins of Philip I & II in the hoard - neither a detailled description of it, nor an image of it on the plates. So it is, as I wrote before, a very rare coin with only a single other one known. I also checked CoinArchivesPro with auctions going back to the mid 1990s, but there were none on there. So now you can share your new knowledge with the NGC chat board members :-)" From WildWinds "The obverse legend is L SEPT SEV PERT AVG IMP V (the last P has a split seriph like /\ which makes it look like an X abd the V has a flat bottom), and the reverse legend is PM TR P III COS II PP which would normally make it RIC 60; RSC 396, but yours is laureate, draped and cuirassed (you can see the ||| lines of the cuirass at his shoulder), so it is BMC 1924,0107.9. It's odd that the RIC authors did not spot this in the British Museum. From the BMC number, it was obviously acquired in 1924 and RIC IV was written 12 years later. In any case, it's a rare baby." From WildWinds
  5. Thank you JKK! I have found the answer I needed. I will be posting what I found out.
  6. Thank you Henri! And thank you for adding to my question to NGC. We will see if they answer???
  7. Thank you Mike! I use this site each night when I list my items on eBay. I search here first, then online.
  8. Hi NGC, I need some help identifying the RIC # of this coin. I just got it back from grading, but can not find any others like it to help identify the catalog/reference #. The coin is a Sept. Severus denarius, and it says draped & cuirrased obverse, with Mars advancing on the reverse. Can anyone help me identify the RIC # please? Thank you Ty G.
  9. Thank you for sending cobymorbet, but unfortunately that is not the same example. I found plenty of Sept. Severus with the Mars reverse, but the obverse is incorrect. The obverse needs to have an older bearded Septimius that is “draped and cuirrased.” I attached a picture of what a cuirass is. Thanks again for sending/checking! Ty G.
  10. Hi, I need some help identifying this coin. I just got it back from NGC, but can not find any others like it to help identify the reference #. The coin is a Sept. Severus denarius, and it says draped & cuirrased obverse, with Mars advancing on the reverse. Can anyone help me identify this please?
  11. Hi everyone, I am trying to find out what this medal is. I have searched the name of the individual who made the dies, and I have searched the individual on the medal. I still can’t find this!!! I did find something that sort of looked like this, but it was a different year. It was a shooting award medal for the Leclerc Prix, for the USAF/Army competition. I tried looking for those to see if I could find more of them, but no luck. Can anyone help? Please and thank you! Ty G
  12. Thanks everyone! Yeah, if this was from the 1870’s or 1880’s or even 1890’s, I know they had a lot of medals made. Once I figure out a date I can start sourcing that year and die sinkers. I special or my collection rather specializes in Lovett pieces. I know this is not a Lovett medal though.
  13. Thanks rrantique, I went through the page. Unfortunately it did not have any information on this medal. I did learn a lot about him though!