Your point holds (so to speak!) pretty well for early Imperial coins, but both RR and Severan coins show Victory in any number of poses other than...
Let me be the 3rd or 4th or 5th to say I also had no idea Cellini engraved dies. Great coin, great post. Thanks.
Waves hand frantically, call on me call on me! A group of griffins is called a drift.
Bah humbug, the RR world starts with the first denarius, lol.
The eagle and standards are very very sharp though; close to Mint State really. Not the best day for quality control at Tony and Cleo's mint, but...
One more quick point about this issue: Crawford 353/1b, with both C.F. and the monogram before Apollo, is excessively rare and under-appreciated...
Here's one of mine. Hard to find with a complete and fully-struck wreath. Even this one could be a bit better around 7:00. I've no thoughts on the...
I don't update it anymore, but people still seem to find my site on ancient imitations of Roman Republican denarii to be useful. Certainly there's...
Best I can do is three heads. This is one of my very favorite coins from my now-dispersed collection of ancient imitations of Roman Republic...
Here's one of the other seven anyway. Five of the remaining six are from this same victoriatus hoard gradually being dispersed by CNG. I don't...
I wonder if that's a typo Warren; an extra zero? Even at that price very unlikely to sell, considering that this much better example, then only...
Well, I only bought eight coins all year, which sort of blows the whole top ten thing right out of the water... so here's my favorite. It's a...
Eraviscan is what struck me too, both the type selection and the style, but the Eraviscan dies are so well known that we can't simply assume that,...
There's a useful discussion of Eraviscan coins that touches on the question of dies and die links:...
All yours!
I'm not 100% convinced that LEG PRI, Crawford 544/13, even exists at all, so don't get too hung up looking for one. I've had serious doubts about...
Here's my description of a different example of this type, in Gemini IV in 2008: C. Coelius Caldus. Silver denarius (3.75 gm). Rome, 51 BC. Head...
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The one time I was charged FedX import fees, on a shipment from LHS in Zurich, that also triggered the state of Illinois to charge me sales tax,...
I'm sure he meant "Wow, that's really cool!" not "Wow, I'm gonna retire!" And you know what Doug? He's right.
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