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Looks a lot different, HUH?
Title: Maybe we'll have to rewrite the record books Post by: Sap on November 03, 2007, 02:58:38 PM Check out this find on the FORVM Ancient Coins forum.
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=41190 (http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=41190) Sure, it wasn't officially issued like that, but it predates the Model Pennies by 1500 years or so. Think it sets a new record for oldest known privately issued bimetallic coin? ;) ;D Title: Re: Maybe we'll have to rewrite the record books Post by: triggersmob on November 03, 2007, 05:43:55 PM I'm not a member of FORVM, so I can't access the picture. Can you grab the pic and post it here.
Whatever it is, I bet BM1947 would like it. Title: Re: Maybe we'll have to rewrite the record books Post by: Sap on November 03, 2007, 08:54:24 PM :-[ Sorry, I forgot that non-members can't normally see FORVM pics. I'll see what I can do.
(http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=41190.0;id=49028;image) Is that working for everyone, or does it red-X for everyone but me? FORVM and KOTCT are both Simple Machines based forums; maybe the picture encoding will translate across. Latest opinion over there is it might be Byzantine, rather than Roman. In which case, it wouldn't be record-breaking. The Axumites in Ethiopia had bimetallic coins before this. Here's an example (http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=68485&AucID=73&Lot=1069) on CoinArchives of a bimetallic Axumite coin from around 525 AD; a base-silver coin with small flakes of gold leaf pressed into it. Title: Re: Maybe we'll have to rewrite the record books Post by: ElleKitty on November 03, 2007, 09:40:09 PM I can see the picture, but I almost wish I hadn't. Eek, that's ugly.
Title: Re: Maybe we'll have to rewrite the record books Post by: triggersmob on November 04, 2007, 05:25:57 AM It's a red cross for me.
Title: Re: Maybe we'll have to rewrite the record books Post by: humpybong on November 04, 2007, 05:34:10 AM I cannot see any pictures at all......found this with some pictures but can see others???? Do you know what format the picture is in. Title: Re: Maybe we'll have to rewrite the record books Post by: Sap on November 04, 2007, 11:29:28 AM OK, I just found out that this forum actually does have an "attach picture" option, in the "Additional options" down at the bottom of the Post Reply box. Here's the file, attached and referenced right here on the KOTCT forum.
Title: Re: Maybe we'll have to rewrite the record books Post by: ElleKitty on November 06, 2007, 05:55:25 PM So -that's- what's wrong!
Whenever someone attaches a picture, I can't see a bloomin' thing! But I can see anything with the IMG and /IMG tags. |