Agreed. I am also waiting for a couple of lots from the recent Elsen sale, but these will be a nice surprise once we emerge from this crisis.
I no longer own this coin, but I must say it profoundly influenced my early collecting experience. As a young man, I was focusing mainly on...
Great coins Al. Here is my only Severus II example. It is from the Carthage mint: [ATTACH]
Great thread. Many great coins. Here are a couple of RR silver examples that I acquired primarily for the design and the stylistic execution....
My opening statement about this coin is mistaken. The QVIES type is explicitly a retirement type. Although there is no "S AVG" in the legend,...
Thanks @Romancollector , The coin is not fully silvered, but there are traces of silvering on both sides, more on the obverse. The surfaces...
When I collected this series years ago before the Internet age, the antoniniani of Diocletian and Maximianus were quite commom, even in high...
I like them all. Great variety. Of course the near full crest Athenian tetradrachm is the star, but I'm also very fond of the Satrienus denarius...
This was my "bargain". Great reverse, but serious obverse flan void with some tooling evidence on the nose and in front of the face. Really...
Al, of course. This should have been an easy attribution for them since Maximianus was never Caesar. This would actually be Galerius....
This is new information for me. I will need to research this. Thanks
This coin arrived today in my mailbox and I would like to share it with you. It is a follis of Maximianus that was struck 307-308 during...
Here is a Crawford 164/1b, C. 179-170 BCE. with obvious oval shape: [ATTACH]
I'm piggy backing on this old @red_spork thread introducing this variety (before my time on this forum) to share my recent acquisition of an...
Just for reference, here are images of the two examples from the VHoard with Q on shield: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
@red_spork, This is a very special coin with an amazing acquisition story. This die variation with the Q device on the shield (or any...
Phil, "very scarce" is modestly conservative. There's the Kestner specimen, the NAC 61 RBW coin lot 297, and this - your coin. As far as I know...
@red_spork , Well said.
@red_spork you are amazing. Both the denarius and the quinarius with corn ear are quite rare. Congratulations on two great finds in a few days....
Yes, I think it is uniformly believed that RRC 45/1 is among the > 30 different denarius, quinarius, sestertius, and Victoriatus issues noted by...
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