Workers may have made off with say 20,000 of the denarii in the hoard, but the authorities took possession of the remaining 81,000 and divided...
Doug, Three months will have meant dozens, even hundreds of obv. dies for some engravers, surely enough to develop a habitual depiction? Not that...
Spaniard, That is Cohen 53, 8 spec. in Reka Devnia hoard, so scarce but not really rare. I don't doubt that it is authentic. The decisive...
Yes, Roma makes sense, since it was to Rome that Septimius was returning. Roma and Virtus are often hard to tell apart in coin types.
An attractive coin, with full flan, legends virtually 100% complete, and almost no circulation wear, though there is mild die wear on the obv....
Raising r. hand in greeting, I would have thought, and apparently holding globe in l. hand.
Do you know how to obtain a copy of the Dinsdale book, or access it online? A Google search produced no results for me. Dinsdale, Paul H....
My tentative explanation of this type: might refer to the imperial family's visit to Egypt in 199-200 AD, like the As of Septimius Severus with...
I found 59 spec. of this sestertius with all bust types, from 17 rev. dies; plus 7 spec. from 2 rev. dies without Virtus leading the horse, as on...
An interesting rev. type and a nice specimen, scarce like all sestertii of Septimius, apparently not in BM with this cuirassed only bust type, but...
Blake, It's a rare sestertius, and a nice example, but not unpublished, just underpublished! Reverse legend is VICT AVGG COS II P P S C, a very...
Zumbly is correct with RIC 65 in my opinion; TR P VIII dot not TR P VIIII. That coin is in BM (BMC 112), and there were 19 specimens in the Reka...
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