I regret selling that Septimius if it was offered as fourree or limes. I missed it if JA listed it that way. It suffered from being buried and...
Much nicer than mine! [ATTACH] 15 + barbarous struck horsemen but not all mints struck for all rulers.
Be nice or I'll send nightmares! I prefer to identify with Cassandra. I have a couple predictions which you can believe or not. When Sallent or...
I undoubtedly am in the minority when I state my opinion that people should either 'get' RIC or 'get over' RIC or any other reference. I don't...
Forgive me for posting this coin which is no longer unpublished after your post above. It has been with me since 1994. I have the seller...
I was attracted to the way this stater was cut so deeply that parts of the design go straight down leaving unusual striations. Straight on photos...
Steve certainly had a lot of magnificent coins (most way over my head). I bought one that was special to me. Many of his coins were from CNG and...
There are so many portrait styles that I'm not sure how we are suppose to know exactly what he looked like. Most would say large statues would be...
'Why?' is never an easy question to answer with certainty. I love overstrikes but the best ones are those that exist in a quantity that...
Too many are from Syria: Same reverse legend, different design by Septimius Severus FELICITAS TEMPOR [ATTACH] [ATTACH] How about same design,...
The scene shows a bull sacrifice at the dedication of the newly completed Temple of the Divine Augustus. Details show better on high grade coins...
There are also Herennia Etrucilla doubles. They are rarely cheap.
Just a warning: This period was particularly well supplied with fourrees. Examine your high end Imperatorials carefully. Not all fourees are...
While I agree we all need to be careful and check reverses, I never thought of coins of Persis being easy to confuse with Parthians. 99% of...
The most common of the reverse are those of Philip I. Mine is 30mm and 15.5g. I have not seen a large one from Pius. I have not noted the type...
This is the problem with Parthians for beginners. ID changes get presented making hundreds of dollars worth of references obsolete. Sometimes...
Continuing my evening's attempt to show coins not like all others is this Decius Victory which just does not match the style of most Decius coins....
All these nice Neros drives me to show my worst. Both denarii are fourrees. The first is a partially peeled fourree of the foil technique. The...
Four halves but all are 'different'. The question is not having more than one but whether they differ enough to have without making it a...
Looking at Banti, I had trouble telling which ones were full. I did see one nice one missing only The photo reproduction is not great. I am...
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