Donna, The grammatical argument is, I think, decisive. Were any other grammatically female qualities, for example Concordia, Felicitas, Justitia,...
Donna, I think Virtus, since the word is feminine, must always be depicted as a female personification, so I can't accept your contention that...
[ATTACH] I get the suspicion, unfortunately, that it may be just a modern cast of an aureus. The rev. die is very similar to that of this aureus...
1934 Wreath Crown's aureus is a mule, since it erroneously has P P on both sides, as already noted by Cohen/Feuardent 501 who first published such...
I've been buying from CGB without problems since before 2000.
Doug, Aren't you exaggerating our ignorance just a little? I would say the figures on your three coins, with near certainty, are: Septimius,...
I would definitely choose the second example, because of the clear issue mark (crescent) on reverse.
(Why does my picture appear just as an attachment, rather than in the thread?)
Orfew, An excellent specimen! I'm a little doubtful about the identification of the object on the throne, however. Doesn't look much like the...
Looks authentic to me, because of the sharpness of some of the details and of the pitting on the obverse.
Thanks for the correction! "For" seems to me quite a good translation for the dative case in Trajan's legend, where the verb is left out. As to...
The front of the old Seaby ticket is in the characteristic handwriting of David Sear. I was buying regularly from Seaby in those days. The 306 at...
Dear Roman Collector, Interesting observations, but I'm afraid you are mistranslating parts of Trajan's legend. SPQR on the reverse is the...
A very nice catch! No GERM in the obv. legend that I can see, which may well make the coin rarer. I'll have to check von Kaenel's monograph. No...
DonnaML, Thanks for your illustrated objections! But (a) the object on Balbinus' coins is much too thin to be a parazonium. Plus the scepter is...
DonnaML, Your denarius shows not the emperor on the reverse, but the Genius of the Senate, so his attribute has to be a short scepter, not a...
Dear Roman Collector, Thanks for the very interesting discussion of the chronology of Faustina II's hairstyles under Marcus! I wish I had...
Gsimonel's three envelopes were typed by my old friend Phil Peck of NYC, who began collecting in the 1950s and whose collection Heritage has...
I know no further specimens of this SALVTI AVGVSTAE middle bronze, though maybe I have just overlooked one or two, since it is not a type that I...
Your Hadrian: no. 117 in R. Abdy's new RIC II.3. For the aegis on shoulder he cites a hoard in Valencia, illustrated pl. 4, the second coin...
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