Meat Man, As a specialist collector of Severan bronze coins, I'd be interested to hear what type it was that you missed. Curtis Clay
I agree with others, the color of your sestertius is quite normal. You also managed to snag a rare variety: laureate sestertii of Divus Antoninus...
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Strack 803 knew just three specimens of your Felicitas sestertius of 139: in Vienna, Rome, and Cahn Sale 1918, lot 536. I also have such a...
Nobody doubts that Albinus was governor of Britain in 193, but Septimius quickly made him Caesar, that is presumptive heir, so that his rear would...
Blake, Congratulations on your new acquisition! In my thesis I recorded only four such sestertii: BMC pl. 24.6, ANS, Ancient Gens sale, and...
"Paris" may be taken to mean the French National Collection, housed in the French National Library (Bibliothèque Nationale) in Paris. The...
Blake, I look forward to seeing the photos of your two new Caracalla bronze coins.
You say "CNG's pictures", allowing me to find your coin in CNG E478, 7 Oct. 2020, lot 527. The CNG description says "From the Benito Collection"....
Jul. Germanicus' sestertius is cat. 1137 in my thesis, dies 202/298. In 1972 I knew only one specimen, Cahn 71, Oct. 1931, lot 1714, which I...
Further to mint attribution, RIC p. 191 with note 20 reminds me that the Mars advancing sestertius of Divus Vespasian had already been assigned to...
Another Mars advancing sestertius from the auxiliary mint, from the same obv. die as the coin illustrated above as RIC 371, was in Roma E18, 27...
Maybe it will be some consolation to know that only a very high bid could have surpassed mine! I was prepared to go to 450 euros or so.
According to the new RIC (2007), portrait sestertii of Divus Vespasian are rare and occur with the following four types: Three with obv. legend...
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