It is most interesting to see what these look like when they come out of the ground. Quite an impressive transformation.
Actually, if you have really, really low standards (like I do!) you can get a sestertius pretty cheap. I am unreasonably pleased with this...
Nice coins. Any Nero sestertius is a good thing. Recently, I got a dupondius, cheap. It is fairly crusty and took me a long, long time to...
From the Crusty Sestertius Collection: [ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius Æ Sestertius (177-178 A.D.) Rome Mint M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG TR P XXXII,...
Nice first time sestertius. I really like that portrait. Mine is lower grade...and I don't want to jump to conclusions, but is this an obverse...
Kind of along the same lines, I was attributing a batch of low grade AEs and found that a Crispus from Siscia was not in RIC. I only know this...
I didn't take a photo, but a couple years back I visited the National Roman Museum in the Baths of Diocletian. When I looked up my avatar - Roman...
Thank you so much for that detailed and helpful response, Curtis. An As it is, then!
I just got another Severus Alexander AE that is confusing me, and I thought this thread was a good home for it. It is in poor shape - the...
Interesting thread. Just over the past year or so I sometimes feel pretty proud of myself when I glance at a Greek AE picture and think - "Ah ha!...
I really enjoyed this post. It was informative and lucid. In my small LRB collection there are 2 SOLI INVICTO COMITI issues of Constantine,...
My go-to site for Viminacium coins is this one: http://www.viminacium.nl/English%20index.html It is one of the most useful sites I know of to...
Good to hear you are on the mend, RC. I have to work faster - I just researched Tacitus, and Valentinian and ACH beat me to the punch. But then...
I'll echo the echo - that looks to be a very good, and important, resource. Nice job, Paulus.
I'm glad Doug posted that - it is a very common fake of this type. In addition to the centering and edge fault, what scares me most about it is...
Very nice examples - lots of eye appeal, well-centered, attractive toning. I like 'em. My first interest in ancients was the Roman Republic,...
I have several of these - I think they were faked a lot in antiquity - there are certainly a lot of them of low weight and iffy-looking metal....
Great thread! I used to belong to Chopmark Collector's Club - I was really into chops for a long time. Mostly I do ancients nowadays. Anyway,...
Here's another early one, about a year before DonnaML's. This one is beardless, I think, but it could be a shave via circulation wear: [ATTACH]...
Interesting information - thanks for sharing. As for counterfeiting a worn denarius - would this (paradoxically) be more difficult than faking a...
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