Nice addition! you have sought and found a rare variant within the (only relatively) scarce denarii of Julia Titi. That is a very nice example....
Even though I should know better, I too was enticed by the very low estimates: A Germanicus 'Signis Receptis' dupondius for double the estimate??...
This is one of those difficult to photograph coins I have. An as of Trajan with Trajan crowned by Victoria. This is the best picture I have been...
I had 3 coins in my wish-list. Only managed to get one, but I am happy:) It was lot 43. A lovely Vespasian sestertius of a scarce type. The...
That amazing coin sold for the price of a very decent single family home - 310000 pounds. Add about 24 % to that.
Then you were bidding against me.... but we both lost so all is good. Still, I did not walk away empty handed.
There are some very good points here made by many of you on this touchy subject. Having purchased some fakes in my 30-year collecting lifetime, I...
Very impressive. I like it!
Ok, but don't say I didn't warn you... (to this day I still don't know what possessed me to buy this coin- I must have 'been on' something I...
Some very nice examples have been posted here:). Sestertii of Septimius Severius, or his imperial bronzes for that matter, are in my experience...
Thank you all very much for your comments. David, that is an very interesting countermark on your vespasian denarius: ''Extremely rare. Only a...
I am glad you managed to get the coin you were after, and at a good price. That one has a very interesting and unusual portrait of Gallienus.
A few more examples of Nero asse with the VESPA countermark. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
A number of years ago at a local coin show I came upon a seller who among other offerings, had a box containing badly worn and corroded ancients....
Good question. For me it would depend how badly the coin is affected. For example, how extensive the fissures are, and whether they affect both...
Somewhere I have a denarius of Vespasian with a sow and her piglets on the reverse (can't find the pictures now or the coin right now). That is a...
Lovely denarius of Vespasian, Deacon Ray:) I find the reverse quite endearing. He does look at little earnest, doesn't he.
Mike, that is something which is called 'Plata Agria' in spanish. Translated literally: sour silver. Not an uncommon phenomena in the coining of...
Very interesting coin!
Here is an of Hadrian which I have not posted before. Hadrian, 117-138, AE As COS III (125-128), Rome. Obv: Draped bust r. Rev: Galley sailing...
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