Stunning reverse! Simply stunning!
I have one of these I won in a Polish auction and will post it - There is another that was on sale on ebay in a higher grade but the buyer wanted...
I would love to read your Thesis and your die studies of Severan sestertii - I would try to update the die study if you had not done so already -...
Quite real, VERY rare, worth more than what you spent in my opinion. I have a die match of this one - these are almost always found very worn....
The Genius is an IMPX type - very rare - I have one with the same reverse die. Oddly enough it is the same IMP X coin as that previously posted by...
I cannot account for the "S" - a mistake - I have to check the Clay example and ACSEARCH
And of course I forgot to respond -I owned an example, foolishly sold, and saw another one for sale in much better condition. These are quite...
I have a post card of the coin somewhere from the BM - with both sides.
Pax is rare for Elagabalus - the doubling on the reverse inscription is interesting - wonder why the figure is not doubled as well? Blake
I agree! I had one that took three or four years - then I’m looking through a book on the Limdgren collection of Greek bronzes and there it is....
P.S. Mytilene struck coins that looked very much like this but the inscription would be different.
I purchased about 150 coins of Troas in a group lot and not a single coin was from Illium/Troy. I also had trouble with finding sources - the CNG...
Beautiful - this type of portrait is my favorite among Caracalla. I have an extremely rare sestertius from this period and with this style of...
I keep coming back to this thread because bit is my area of collecting interest. For someone new to buying sestertii these show wonderful...
There is just something eye popping about ultra high grade sestertii like these lovely examples. I have spent over a quarter century begging,...
Rare - only six of this type sold at major auctions since 1999
Beautiful - I thought I had seen every Severan type but this is new to me - i am going to research the type but it has to be extraordinarily rare
If it’s a beautiful coin I find that paying too much seems to be forgotten with time. And this is a beauty - the portrait is stunning.
Beautiful! Many Severan and other denarii were offered in higher grades on eBay and elsewhere in the early 2000’s. I had started a collection but...
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