Apollo with beard, eagle and thunderbolt? Really? Oh, the head!
I have several Sauroktonos coins but none with hand over head. To me, the proper variation is the one showing boy Apollo with hand slowly...
The coin has clear legends. Is it too late to edit our OP description to match?
I don't have an opinion worth stating save perhaps that it is not good to put too much weight on opinions from photographs or too little on coins...
Many Greek coins and even some Roman Provincials have denomination marks. The OP asked for Imperials so the number of answers is cut way down.
It is not important to people filling oneper slots so the price difference in a slab may not be in keeping with the difficulty. For the benefit...
Show a Balbinus in XF for $300. For that matter, I'll be shocked to see a VF if graded properly.
I do not believe that coin is fourree but you would have to cut it in half to convince me so let it drop. You can't say Hadrian and fourree...
The practice pretty much died after Nero. There was a period where Licinius marked his AE3 issues with their value in denarii of account (12...
I have heard that about California. I was last there in 1973. No need to return, I guess. Similarly, back then, you could buy a house with...
Who noticed how the handshake style shown on the OP differs from the way our culture does it (or did it if you have moved on to fist bumping)?...
At this time the Lugdunum (Lyon) mint was distinguished by the globe at the point of the bust as shown on the OP coin but missing from ro1974's...
There is several times as much light on the bottom half as on the top for each side of the coin resulting in the background not being the same...
I love the way many show a simplified alphabet for the less literate among us. I understand the I's but can you find the -, T and O's, too?...
This strikes me as a good example of a potential problem with an online and searchable database. I love the new RIC site Seth and Victor linked...
Like potato chips, it is hard to eat just one. We give lip service to the concept that there is no wrong way to collect ancient coins but I can...
I forgot to say publicly: Great coin, Steve! We had been following this process privately which is always the way to go when chasing things...
That is a fact! Our hobby is unpopular enough that it is often hard to find someone else who barely has a clue but 'get it' grade people are hard...
I may have mentioned this before but Geta fans should never pass up a Geta as Caesar sestertius. There are enough Geta Augustus sestertii to go...
Have you noticed that there are very few that are Imperial but many Provincials? Almost all Imperials are posthumous issues. Why? Two...
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