There's almost nothing that can compare to holding a big chunk of silver in hand. I'm glad you finally got it! A superb piece. NB: Your example...
Most of these Grand Tour Roman cameos have a name attached in Latin of the imperial personage depicted. The fact this one is blank probably...
"Oh, how pious our dynasty shall be!" [ATTACH]Vespasian AR Denarius, 3.32g Ephesus mint, 71 AD RIC 1424 (R3). BMC - . RSC - . RPC 827 (1 spec.)....
Butcher and Ponting have shown that the silver that produced much of Vespasian's Rome mint silver coinage was the same composition as that struck...
Undoubtedly, the most iconic of all Flavian coins. [ATTACH] Vespasian Æ Sestertius, 24.60g Rome mint, 71 AD RIC 167 (C3). BMC 543. Obv: IMP CAES...
@Plumbata and @John Anthony expressed my concerns. The smoothing in the fields and the gouge that looks purposely chiseled were deal breakers....
Just out of curiosity ... why is this called a 'Masada coin'?
Copied from the listing: Titus Bronze Dupondius. AD 80 - 81. Mint in Thrace 29 mm. 12.40g. RIC 503; C. 189; BMC 314(Lugdunum); RPC 507; BN 325....
This Titus Thracian dupondius was up for auction today on eBay. [ATTACH] Nice looking coin, right? Can anyone guess why I passed on it? BTW,...
Beard's SPQR stops at the point when universal Roman citizenship was introduced by Caracalla. Personally, I don't agree with that arbitrary...
A JC denarius for $182, bargain wise you have me beat. Well done!
He was selling a handful of Roman coins at the same time, but looking at his previous sales and activity he did not deal in ancient coins or...
Most of these Titus lefties are rare (Andrew's coin) but a few are considered common (ominus1's coin). However, a good rule of thumb is to choose...
The shortened IMP CAESAR obverse legend. Note that the more 'common' examples you cited above have the longer IMP CAES obverse legend.
I'm not going to lie, I got this coin for a song. Listed on eBay by a seller who primarily sells vintage baseball cards, I won it for a mere $35,...
I think a valuable and beautiful piece such as that would be part of someone's stored wealth and not an 'everyday' sort of coin. Superb in every way!
This isn't true of the new Flavian RIC II.1. Published in 2007, it is a fairly accurate gage of rarity for the coinage covered in the volume...
Kevin Butcher's thoughts on the 'Tribute Penny'. [MEDIA] (I like how coin envelopes are used to store coins and trays to display them!)
Same here. But mine are organised by RIC or RPC catalogue numbers. If I need a certain coin I just look up which catalogue number it is. It's...
I completely forgot about this auction today because of the holiday! I'm glad you remembered and picked up that RIC 788. Congrats on your win!
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