Beautiful coin! Lovely all around. Congrats!
Modern cast forgery.
Beggars can't be choosers when it comes to those rare coin types you may not see again. That certainly is the case with my latest addition - a bit...
I love it when a coin comes with an old ticket. Beautiful piece too!
A very respectable group of Flavians. But I do think you cheated on the 'Titus'. ;)
I've noticed that most denarii of this type have a similar flan shape. My example matches your flan. [ATTACH] Vespasian AR Denarius, 2.87g Rome...
Thank you Curtis for the corrections! And yes, the Hamburg reference was a slip on my part.
As a specialist there is a certain thrill when acquiring the second known specimen of a particular type. My latest coin was previously known from...
Broke it out ... and it felt so good! [ATTACH]
The Roman goddess Salus was responsible for the prosperity of the Roman state and its rulers and was an important deity on the coinage throughout...
Ask yourself why 'damnatio memoriae' wasn't mentioned. Minor scratches don't require comment apparently.
Just random scratches, IMHO.
Sometimes a coin jumps out of the pack and makes you sit up and take notice. This one did so for me because of the tremendous eye-appeal and fine...
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That stylish avuncular portrait is the work of a very talented engraver. One of the better ones I've come across.
I would assume some of these specimens were available to the Paduan artists before they ended up in the major collections....
I am thrilled to have recently acquired an important iconic Flavian 'grail' coin. Super rare and not often seen 'unenhanced' (no tooling or...
Yes. [ATTACH]Divus Vespasian Æ Sestertius, 25.01g Rome mint, 80-81 AD Obv: DIVO AVG VESPAS above; S P Q R in exergue; Deified Vespasian std. r....
Tacitus put those words in the mouth of the Caledonian war-chief Calgacus in the Agricola - 'They plunder, they butcher, they ravish, and call it...
A few years ago I was collecting these 'Vitellian-like' portraits of Vespasian and kind of made a game of it here on CT....
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