Indeed, Laetitia Augusti Nostri, the Joy of Our Emperor. Not only great condition, but a rare dupondius too: only five specimens recorded by...
Still, that sounds like an interesting selection of U.S. coins and currency!
Even a worn sestertius of Plautilla will cost a mint, but her PIETAS AVGG and VENVS VICTRIX middle bronzes come up now and again at reasonable...
Blake, Nice FORTVNAE REDVCI sestertius! I have a plaster cast of the same coin made at Spink's in the 1970s. All Elagabalus sestertii of the...
Blake, Two others from the same dies as yours: CNG E457, 4 Dec. 2019, 323, see their picture below. Glasgow p. 79, no. 65, not illustrated,...
Roman Collector's missed Faustina denarius hammered for 475 euros, certainly a high price for a common-looking coin! From different dies both...
Blake, I think the people face left here too, confirmed by the recipient climbing a ladder on the left, but the coin is badly tooled, possibly...
Aestimare, RIC 33, obv. leg. 3: I strongly suspect this is just a misread or misprinted obv. leg. 5. RIC 17, obv. leg. 3: I'll believe in this...
Aestimare, Die links between Rome and the IMP ANTONINVS AVG branch mint cannot occur, because the obv. legends are always different, and whenever...
Aestimare, Elagabalus' antoniniani and denarii in Rome-mint style but with obv. legend IMP ANTONINVS AVG were in my opinion all produced at a...
Doug, By 1972 I had found shared sestertius obv. dies between the legionary type and every other type of the year except VICT AVG, namely...
Blake, I haven't noticed any marked decrease in the numbers of Severan sestertii appearing on the market. They have always been quite scarce!...
Correct: VENVS CAELESTIS standing, always with star, early 220 to mid-221; VENVS CAELESTIS seated, always without star, mid-221 to March 222.
Aestimare, The star was confined to coins of Elagabalus only after the introduction of the four emperor-sacrificing types in mid-221. The...
Hotwheelsearl, The closest match I find in the 2012 edition of Hristova/Hoeft/Jekov, Coins of Nicopolis ad Tstrum, p. 129, first coin on page:...
Oh, those are just decoratians of the standard, which are frequently shown in this type. See BMC pl. 93.6: similar "rays" on both standards,...
Sulla80, I think no second star behind the emperor on your denarius, just the two lower serifs of the S in the legend which are reminiscent of...
The following is my reply to a discussion that Jochen links to above, proposing that the star in rev. field of some of Elagabalus' coins...
Donna, I would consider your denarius to have a long beard, or possibly medium to long. Short beards are really short, as on your second coin of...
Blake, Sestertii of Septimius and family are - Comparatively common from 193 to c. fall 196. - Rarer from c. fall 196 to early 198, say 1/3 the...
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