Macrinus' provincial coins are a lot less difficult to obtain than his issues from Rome. My sestertius is, however, a bit strange as it is made...
Unlisted or irregular coin.[ATTACH]
Just an 'ordinary' campgate in good style RIC 225[ATTACH]
This one I just bought yesterday: IMP T AELIVS CAE-SAR ANTONINVS bare head right TRIB -POT COS PIETAS (in ex??) / S - C Pietas standing left,...
I have been an addict for 45 years now, and, indeed, coins keep rolling in..... As for Mr AP, I have not yet gotten to posess half his RIC...
Just one more: Fausta RIC 235[ATTACH]
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I will be modest as well: this one is rare, as it is an 'altar' coin struck under Claudius![ATTACH]
IMP T AELIVS CAESAR ANTONINVS his bare head right / TRIB POT COS DES II , PIETAS in exergue. Pietas standing left offering over altar out of a...
Among the thousands of coins I have, I cannot point out a favorite, but I can point out a coin that led me on the trail of collecting Antoninus...
As a rule, left facing head or busts are rare and not too many are recorden in Cohen and therefore neither in RIC, but sometimes both bare heads...
Nice, but I failed utterly.....
The Latin coins from eastern regions were often 'Colonies' as COL VIM and COL ANT. They do not usually have S - C on the coins as that was a...
It's been in a drawer ever since - wonderful!:woot:
Annona is the devine personification of the regular supply of corn to Rome fron Sicily and later, from Northern Africa; the modius is one of her...
A hundred years or so before Pius.[ATTACH]
CMEZNER I like your Providentiae Deorum sestertius very much. Hard to get and especially in such a fine condition! Your denarius here above is...
Here's another unrecorded one on a RIC 530 reverse. The obverse must be later, so we speak of a hybrid coin. [ATTACH] The celator paid more...
I love collecting minor abberations of otherwise usual issues: here a laureate Pius and a bareheaded Aurelius on an example of the vast series of...
Nice medal and fine research! Both make up for a lovely story!
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