Wow, this is a fanastic portrait of Quintillus with the moustache and the sideburns! It looks kind of 1970s (not 270s) :-)
Good to see that the coin ended up in a museum in Aachen (Germany), where it was minted some 1200 years ago.
I think the Emporium coin is definitely a modern forgery. We've discussed that before. They sold tons of forgeries of similar style spanning...
That is a very interesting set of thoughts. Economists have battled with the concept of "value" for most of the 19th century. Classical...
The OP coin is really great. I have 34 Quintillus Antoniniani. This is what I call a typical Milan portrait of Quintillus: [ATTACH] Here is a...
I think what could really upset the market are demographic changes. For example, the baby boomers retiring or dying, could release a lot of coins...
If it is a bubble it will burst sooner or later. Somehow I don't believe that sometime in the future, after the bubble has burst, we can once...
...but at least one other person thought that the coin was worth that much, minus the auction increment.
I like the "satisfaction quotient" a lot. In economics we have a concept according to which all "normal" economic goods are subject to...
The funny thing is that price and joy-factor are not that much correlated - at least in my experience. As a student in London, I collected Russian...
Yes, the author says that it is possible that AD stands for Adiutrix. There is apparently an example of a countermark APOL which is interpreted to...
The hoard looks like it hasn’t been properly identified. Perhaps there is a Domitianus II or a Proculus in the hoard.
Yes, this 5th emission of Lugdunum contains the most wonderful and unusual bust types of the entire Roman numismatics. Here are pieces from my...
This is a particularly nice bust type. Here is my exemplar: [ATTACH]
I found the Diocletian Antoninian below. The reverse is not quite as rare as the IOVI FVLGERATORI reverse, but it is quite scarce I think. It...
That is a really nice catch. I didn't know that this is the only VOTA type of Constantius II.
Wow, the portrait on this coin is breathtaking!
That looks like a great buy for 50 euros. I'm also very tired of auctions, with all their added costs and insane hammer prices. I just pulled the...
Here is another recent Ebay win. I have all sorts of die combination of Gallienus' Victoria Germanica series, but this one was still missing, i.e....
Very nice OP coin (great portrait and interesting reverse). I think it is remarkable how Caracalla aged on his coins, given that he died at only...
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