Republic Denarius with nice portrait

I fell in love with this coin as soon as I saw it. To me the portrait is very attractive. It features winged and draped Bust of Victory right with * below chin on the obverse and the reverse has Mars walking left holding spear and trophy, apex before and corn ear behind. The legend is L. VALERI FLACCI. It's RSC - Valera II and Sear 183.

 

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What a fantastic and beautiful coin! I cannot find one thing to not like about her. I have never seen a portrait of Victory like that.

 

Great coin.

 

Sweet.
Great portrait

 

Such an endearing portrait of Victory!

 

I have to agree, the portrait of Victory is lovely. The coin is as well!

 

Gorgeous coin, and a great example that you have! I went and looked yours up in my Sear book, and I do not have it. HOWEVER, I WANT one now! VERY nice job capturing that beauty!

 

yeah, the bust of victory is beautiful!

 

Yes, I think I got lucky on this one. It's the best example I have seen. I have seen other very nice ones though. I just had to have this one when I saw it. I probably over paid but I didn't care one bit. There are also some that are pretty poorly done.

 

Nice => that's a total winner (congrats)

 

I've always like this type @alde. And you're right. Nice portrait.

 

Very nice!

 

I think you chose wisely.

 

I fell in love with the portrait on mine too, enough so to overlook the flan defect on the obverse. It's a beautiful type.

 

You have a very pretty one too. The flan defect dosen't distract from it much at all.

 

Great OP coin !

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Wow, nice portrait. Really awesome coin, like others, I don't recall seeing that obverse before.

 

Very charming natural look.