I completed getting this most historically important group together this last year and thought i'd share them with ya! Trajan Decius antoninianus, Herennia Estruscila sestertius (Rome)..Herennius Estruscus on bronze Ae 27 from Viminacium, Moesia Superior and Hostilian on an Ae 21 from Anazarbus Cecilia, along with their respective reverses.. POST YOUR COINS & COMMENTS PEEPUS'S
Here is my Trajan Decius.I just took it off his olive oil bath just for you.. Trajan Decius Sestertius 28 mm Viminacium Moesia Superior IMP TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG PMS C-OL VIM ANXI Moushmov 44
Nice coins, I like this family! Here are some of mine AV Aureus ND struck 251AD Rome Mint Herennia Etruscilla/ Augusta 249-51AD
I know few want coins this beat up but I really wanted a double sestertius of Decius and this was what I could afford. My favorite Decius series has the very abbreviated obverse legend IMP CAE TRA DEC AVG. These used to be attributed to a separate mint but modern scholarship places them at Rome near the end of the reign. This has the GEN ILLYRICI reverse
Nice group @ominus1 ! I can't but encourage you to (re)read the thread I wrote two years ago about TD's coinage : https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-trajan-decius-the-divi-series.296342/ @dougsmit, no problem with your double S being worn, still it's a double S and I'm desperate of getting one someday ! Q
Attached below are photos of a tetradrachm from Antioch, Syria struck in the 1st year of the reign of Trajan Decius, AD 249, Officina 5, 13.43 gm, Ex collection of Jonathan Kern. McAlee #1106e, & struck from the same dies as the specimen illustrated in his book. Listed by McAlee as Ex. Rare. I bought this coin from Harlan Berk about 2 1/2 years ago.
panzerman, That's a wonderful portrait aureus , & should be illustrated in Andreas Pangerl's book 500 Years of Roman Coin Portraits.
Yes, your coin is better quality then lot 625 Triton XXII Prieur Coll. McAlee 1105d which is listed as EXT. rare. I might get one or two from Triton auction. I do not have any tetradrachms.......yet. There are many EF-supberb ex. to choose from. John In that Leu Numismatic auction, I was tight for cash, so sadly missed getting the AV Hostilian Aureus. Later that month Tauler&Fau had a R-3 Galerius Aureus in MS/ I had to watch it go for 8K/ but I grabbed the Galla Placida AV Tremissis for 1100Euros.....good buy! Next year, I will keep more cash in reserve.
How does one tell a coin from the Kern collection from a coin from his dealer stock. I have close to a hundred coins bought from JK but had no idea he had a private collection. He was once one of my favorite sources among the dealers at the Baltimore show.
That's a good question. Being an ex-dealer myself, I would on occasion sell coins that were upgraded or coins that no longer interested me from my private collection. That's a benefit of being a dealer. After closing my business I still liquidate coins by auction or private treaty, & often the new owners of those coins would on occasion label them Ex Kowsky collection. Let's be frank, no one really owns coins we'er just the caretakers, but you never see a coin labeled "Ex Caretaker Jonathan Kern".
ro1974, That's a beautiful looking as , great strike with exceptional portrait & fine patina. The resemblance of the reverse design to Diocletian's "GENIO POPVLI ROMANI" folli is more than casual, with the military standard in the background being the only major difference.
My point is that I value provenance that sows the coin was 'good enough' for a person I respect (there is a longer list than you might believe) but I really don't care about which dealer took a coin on consignment or bought it wholesale with no interest in the item. Of course time adds interest since it is good to know that a coin was in any collection a hundred years ago. Tom Cederlind passed away with a collection of coins that meant something to him and a group of coins he just had not sold yet. I would very much like to associate with him with his private collection but not so much his normal dealer stock of things he hoped to sell soon. This last class is not ex. Cederlind 'collection' in my view. I have been embarrassed seeing CT postings of coins as ex. Doug Smith collection because the coins I consider 'collection' are the ones I keep and not the ones I sent off to market. They may be perfectly good coins but they are not what I want to be remembered by. Some were in my collection and got replaced but others were part of large lots I bought to get other coins and never intended to keep. I see a difference.
For what it's worth.. I have a couple of coins that used to belong to you and I tag them as ex. Doug Smith. You may not want to be remember by them but they'll always have a spot in my collection from a person who taught me so much about ancients.
Trajan Decius ant Trajan Decius Viminacium ANNO XI - rough scary face Trajan Decius Viminacium ANNO XII Hostilian Viminacium ANNO XII
