Antoninus Pius Sestertius

nice coin JG! and some sweet lookin' coins here in general.

just out of curiosity, why are most of the coins you post lacking patina?

i'm horribly under piused. i have a going rate denarius and a hideous provincial. i did recently pick up this sestertius of his wife, it aint bad...

 

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I'm thinking JG gets asked this a lot... I just asked the same question on another thread. He just happens to find them more appealing that way. And he is always careful to imply or say that he doesn't strip patinas, so we don't get mad at him.

It's all good, JG, I totally see the appeal!

 

Julius-G => wow, another comfy sestertius OP-winner (congrats)

I love A-Pius examples ... here are a couple of my humble sestertii

 

Ooooh, and if it's okay, I may as well add-in my other A-Pius offerings, eh?





=> A-Pius Rocks!!

 

Ave Severus Alexander! I couldn´t have said it better in my own words

 

Awesome, @stevex6! What about your Faustinas?

Sest., Juno standing left, holding patera & long scepter, S4629, RIC 1143 (Ant. Pius), Cohen 210, BMC 1531 (I think).

 

Severus Alexander, if you decide to go ahead and treat with Verdi care that nice A.P sestertius you showed us a few posts back, pls don't forget to show the results to us. Really liked the portrait on that one.

 

Thanks, will do! Wizard says they'll ship to Canada so I'll place an order soon.

 

I just got a nice Antoninus Pius sestertius in the mail today from Mr. Ken Dorney.

Obv. ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P - Laureate head right

Rev. COS IIII S C in ex. Emperer standing facing to left, nimbate, holding branch and scepter.

RIC 765 32mm 22.35 grams

 

Another nice portrait, congrats on a good pick up.