Terrific, Your Julian bronze is outstanding.
Beautiful. Your coins are always so inspiring and seeped with deep historical meaning.
I agree - leave it alone. Cleaning it will only strip the patina and ruin your coin.
I thought it was just me , but I don't like CNG's new site either. I also don't like the new Sixbid site. I find them cluttered and...
Got this one in an auction , Bertolami, 12/01/2019. I have always been partial to Nero and fell for the portrait.[ATTACH] next, a coin you bought...
There used to be lots of coin/antique kiosks around Campo dei Fiori and some of the smaller streets off of and parallel the Via Del Corso. That...
I agree. I think Nero's coins are hard to beat. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here is a Salus aureus of a rather corpulent Nero. Also a Salus rev. sestertius of Marcus Aurelius , followed bt a dupondius af his predicessor...
A Sestertius of Maximinus with Fides Militum reverse... [ATTACH]
Death and taxes - the old dependables.
Here is an interesting marble plaque probably from a columbarium illustrting in very concrete terms the infant mortality... C(AIUS) TAFLENIUS...
As bad as it was in Rome, Rome was probably the best, and safest place to be back then. I can only imagine what the rest of the world was like.
Here is my RR serratus denarius of Aquilius. My guess would be that serrati were an attempt at counterfeit prevention. Most likely this endeavor...
RR den - radiate head of Sol (Helios) next... Luna. [ATTACH]
That is absolutely a striking coin. congrats!
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