Roman Collector, What traces of overstriking do you see on your EF Diva Faustina I denarius?
Addition to the pedigree: Harlan Berk sold the Art Institute's Glover Collection of Alexandrian coins in Gemini XIII, Chicago, 6 April 2017, lots...
The Berk piece is a different spec. than yours, though apparently from the same rev. die.
Doug, Yes, there is considerable variation in the portraits of Caracalla as Caesar, making it difficult to divide them into a sequence of...
Mike's sestertius with Salus clearly holding an upside down rudder in her lowered l. arm: Strack pl. XII, 979. That's also the case on many of the...
Well spotted by both of you!
David, Interesting error! Who first noted the omitted S, Marc B. or yourself?
Blake, You are right, MARTI VLTORI is the rarest sestertius rev. type of Caracalla as Caesar. By 1972 I knew only five specimens, two in Vienna,...
Donna, A 'Kraay overstrike' would also be a possibility. In that case the undertype would have to have been either Temple of Janus from another...
Your paragraphs 3-4 had vanished for me 15 minutes ago, but are now again visible.
Donna, My response to three matters that you now seem to have deleted from your post: I think the flaws on the rev. must be flan flaws that were...
Blake, I know a number of specimens of this VICTORIAE BRITANNUCAE sestertius of Septimius Severus: Berlin Sch. Kreditanstalt 3, lot 625 CNG...
Curtis, Hard to be sure from a picture given the wear, but I believe your coin is a normal sestertius of Albinus of 194, with the obv. legend...
RIC 2972 includes both bust types, unfortunately, since Abdy does not give separate bust codes for what he considers "minor embellishments on...
SNG Copenhagen 1149-51 all show the normal right-facing head of Athena.
Finn, A very nice example, but I am not so sure it was struck for Diadumenian as Augustus. Sometimes the title CEB was added to the obv. legend...
Dates of the three types with PIA FELIX obv. legend that are shown above: DIANA LVCIFERA: Mid-212 to early 214 VESTA standing: Early to end 214...
Doug, I doubt we will differ much on these four coins. All of them are official, the first two from the mint of Alexandria, 3-4 from the main...
My answer to a similar question on Forum in 2012: The term "hybrid" has become tainted in my mind, because so many of the coins so described in...
I agree with Roman Collector: same rev. die. So the lion's head on one of the coins must either have been recut in the die at the mint, or else...
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