My copy of this book, ordered Sunday evening, arrived from Spink in London today. That was fast! It looks great.
Yes, the obverse is quite nice despite that pit, but I am really not fond of the surface of Marcus Aurelius's face, which is why I decided not to...
A lovely coin, @johnmilton
Do you see it now?
Thanks, @ambr0zie. And everyone else. Your comment made me start thinking about my top 10 for 2021, especially because right now I've sort of...
Just to show how difficult it is to find nice examples of this type, this coin is being auctioned in a couple of days with a starting bid higher...
Great coin. The earliest version of the type, it seems.
If you look in Pangerl's table for RIC 444, it actually does say 148-149. The number 12 in the photos refers to something else; there are many...
@TIF, yours certainly looks Alexandrian, although I don't see a year. Is it Emmett 1406?
As I've mentioned, I've been looking for a couple of years for a nice example of one of the denarius types with portraits of Antoninus Pius as...
On the other hand, you can see that google claims 663,000 results for the word "exergual." I admit that I haven't checked them.
@Roman Collector and @Gam3rBlake, Volumes I-IV of BMCRE -- covering Augustus through Commodus -- are all available online, including the plates,...
No Liberalitas as of yet, and only two Severus Alexanders -- one FIDES MILITVM and one MARS VLTOR: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Indeed she does -- in both quality and quantity, with more than 100 Roman Alexandrian coins, compared to my 25 or so. But here are a few of mine I...
Sold in the USA under the Lighthouse name; see coin box type 13 on p. 71 of the Lighthouse catalog:...
Thanks for the explanation!
LOL. You're right about what the jackal looks like. And what Serapis looks like putting his hand out to Cerberus -- whom I have trouble...
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