BTW Without the drapery I would say that Pius' bare HEAD is shown. To me a bare bust would be something where part of the chest is shown, like on...
This is an interesting variant of the same coin with a bare bust with drapery on the far shoulder and a fold of cloak in the neck. [ATTACH]
When the first catalogs were composed about more than one collection in the mid 18 hundreds, only types were documented. Advancing into the...
The thing that looks like a net in a game of tennis, is actually a bridge (pons) you had to cross in order to cast your vote on the other side. I...
Antoninus pius RIC 703 var[ATTACH]
Your hunch is right: they are fake. They immitate coins from Ephese (combine deer and bee) and of Macedonia (combine Alexander and Zeus) Frans
I might go back and buy one with the comet. Yes, but htese babies come with a price or a defect....[ATTACH]
Pius also used Securitas extensively on his coins; here's an as RIC 691[ATTACH]
Hi Doug, your sestertius has two cracks, nearly halving the coin; I too wouldn't worry too much as it illustrates the hurry at the mint in...
BTW this is the uncleaned coin.[ATTACH]
I just finished cleaning a perfect example with a flan crack. Antoninus Pius sestertius RIC 916a pretty common but nevertheless nice, which I...
One of my Domitian coins.[ATTACH]
One very interesting sestertius of Pius as Caesar under Hadrian. The Concordia symbolises the future concord between Pius and Hadrian. The latter...
One of my favorites is this Dacia variant sestertius.[ATTACH]
Here together with his admiral of the fleet Agrippa.[ATTACH]
The ultimate result is heavy wear of the dies which you regularly see on later antoniniani; we then speak of 'worn dies'.[ATTACH]
I prefer to follow Curtis Clay in his description of draped, semi-draped, slight drapery etc: draped = clothing seen all around (sometines...
I just happen to have a Triens from Roman Republican times; you don't see many of them, indeed![ATTACH]
My first impression:'deliciously barbaric'
Bought this one at least thirty years ago. Frans[ATTACH]
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