David's very nice and desirable coin: perhaps to be regarded as a mule, since the FIDES PVBLICA type was struck mainly for Vespasian, RIC 1210...
The horizontal "trenches" at top and bottom of the altar on Doug's example: apparently an early design variation, also visible on RIC pl. 138, 209...
Doug, Since your Divus Augustus As by Nerva has three holes, I indeed see through it instantly, but otherwise am not sure what I might be missing!
In my opinion the Galley sestertius has been somewhat overcleaned, but not tooled. Compare the VF BM specimen from the same dies, illustrated in...
Valentinian, Without putto, mid-215 to early 217. With putto, early 217-end of reign. The types were all slightly changed early in 217. The...
Nice sharp specimen, with full legends and much of the dotted borders still on flan! Hill 1340 dates this Vesta type to 213 AD, but the correct...
In Num. Chron. 149, 1989, pp. 209-224, I wrote a review article of David Walker's treatment of the Roman coins from the Sacred Spring at Bath, and...
Yes, Antoninus Pius, rev. probably TR POT XIX COS IIII S - C, Providentia standing, extending r. hand over globe at feet and holding scepter in...
Surely the types with and without altar must represent one and the same goddess, not "Concordia" without altar but "Salus" with altar, as stated...
Despite the softness, I think the DOMIAN coin is authentic and was a good buy at $60 or so. Presumably the engraver paused after writing DOMI,...
I think Paris should still have their holed aureus of Nigrinian, since Cohen gives as source just "France", that is the French collection, not...
You can also be confident that Künker will reduce even a very high bid that you submit for a coin you really want, to just one bid above the next...
Eckhel's ninth observation about decennalian vows, Doctrina VIII, 1798, p. 484: Many late Roman emperors anticipated upcoming vows even before...
Doug, Types were regularly engraved first, followed by legends, as one can tell from the numerous cases where the legend breaks to make space for...
Nice acquisitions! I too have been collecting PONT denarii of Domitian for decades. I am a litttle mystified, however, that you can quote my...
Acessible through Research on the CNG website.
Apparently an obv. legend var. of RIC 405 and BM 531, from the same dies as a spec. I wrote into my BMC: CNG E243, 2010, lot 365. Here is CNG's...
JulGerm, I do not have a cast of the Paris ANNONA AVG As reported by Cohen 11. The Wayne Sayles example that you link to is among my casts,...
gogili1977, Your second denarius is a rare and interesting mule, struck c. March 218 on from an old rev. die of late in 217 (TR P COS) that...
SevAlex, You are right to restore COS II on your Securitas standing As: apparently same dies as my plaster cast of a coin in Copenhagen, on which...
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