A nice acquisition. DOMITIANVS written out rather than just DOMIT, a rare variant occurring only in this issue: I wouldn't call that low key!
Sulla80, Actually Septimius defeated Albinus near Lugdunum on 19 Feb. 196 (IMP VIII) not 197 (IMP VIIII), so your nice FORTVNAE REDVCI coin...
BMC 206*, pl. 7, publishes a dupondius of Severus Alexander like Paddyman's, from the same rev. die (MONETA AVGVSTI S C), which is in the Vatican...
Rome, as shown by style and fabric.
Thanks for the clarification! I was thinking that the date 57 might be due to Harlan, but wasn't able to find our copy of his second study in...
Sulla80, Thanks for this penetrating presentation of the evidence! Aren't you making a mistake, however, in saying that 100 auction houses date...
David, An interesting and rare variant, though maybe not too difficult to explain! Red metal of course means an As, and that denomination is...
Identity of the statue: see RIC p. 112, note 56. H.-M. von Kaenel in Schweizer Münzblätter, May 1978, p. 39, pointed out a VF specimen of this...
If the inscription CIL VI 562, quoted above by RC, is ancient and correctly read, then it proves that in 22 AD, during the reign of Tiberius, the...
Sulla's coin is clearly irregular, an ancient imitation, in my opinion.
I believe it is the same obv. die, and the tooling is not bad. I could see retaining the coin, in the hope of upgrading and reselling it later; or...
I have two similar middle bronzes, both apparently copper asses, in my collection. It's always interesting to compare details between different...
Julius G., Your sestertius looks authentic to me, and the portrait indeed looks like Aemilian, but I suspect some tooling of the obv. legend....
The Shapwick Villa hoard, Coin Hoards from Roman Britain XI, 2002, p. 212, 982, contained 51 specimens of these MATER DEVM denarii of Domna, but...
Regarding the two MATER DEVM seated types with which Roman Collector started this thread: yes, the scepter makes a difference! From my...
Known to me by 1972: 7 dupondii of this type, from one obv. and two rev. dies. Doug's two specimens show that one obv. die and both of the...
I think Roger Bland (not Rodger as I wrote above) sent me a copy of his list about 20 years ago. It would be hard to locate, if I still have it....
ID apparently uncertain. Barbara Levick, Faustina I and II, 2014, p. 54: "The identity of the owner of the female head, marginal as it seems to...
Blake, Until I can see a clearer example, I would postulate that the VIC GER on shield probably doesn't derive from the ancient rev. die, but was...
Blake, Again I happen to have a plaster cast of your coin: it was in Glendining Sale, London, 4 July 1973, lot 23. I think it is tooled but...
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