[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Caracalla As 11.85 grams, 26mm Obverse inscription: ANTONINUS PIUS AVG GERM Reverse Inscription: PMTRP XX COS IIII PP...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Geta Dupondius 12.76 grams, 25mm Obverse inscription: P SEPT GETA PIUS AVG BRIT Reverse Inscription: FORT RED TRP III COS II...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Although my collection is now limited to sestertii of Septimius Severus and family, at one time I collected...
When I was a kid, collecting US pennies and the like, and poring over the 1964 "Redbook" I would come upon coins that were so rare that instead of...
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[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I apologize on two counts - first there is the poor photographs which I took with my phone camera. The problem is that my...
I recently purchased this wonderful As of Geta, RIC 129(b), Aesculapius standing between two snakes, in distyle temple. The coin is large -...
A friend has managed to purchase close to 10,000 coins over the last 20 years, a sizable number from ebay, including a huge number of imperial...
[ATTACH] In the year 200 or so the emperor Septimius Severus completed his second trip to the east. His campaign had been against the Parthian...
A few years back I gave up my quest to have a sestertius of every person that struck one. After pursuing this for some years it was evident that...
I thought I might bring up something that may be controversial, that is, whether ancient coins are of such inherent worth and interest that they...
I just purchased a very nice but fairly worn sestertius of Elagablus - I will post it when it arrives in the mail, probably a few weeks from now....
I have been buying and selling ancient coins for 20 years now, my selling has been a means to afford my buying since for some reason there seems...
Recently I came across what was described as a unique sestertius of Septimius Severus, which should be capable of being viewed at this link:...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Now that the northeast is experiencing another snowstorm I have time to write another thread. As I have mentioned in...
One of the oddities in our hobby is the concept that a coin can be "unlisted," in other words, not documented in the major catalogs. For those who...
Like many people I arrived at ancient coins through an interest in ancient history. The two interests - collecting (actually more of an obsession...
I have read that the sestertius provided additional space for Rome's great celators to work on. Unfortunately, the sestertius began shrinking...
I recall reading somewhere, perhaps on Moneta, a discussion on the rarity of dupondii of Septimius Severus. I do not think there was much of a...
This is a more complete description of a subject I mentioned in my introductory thread: Although my collecting interests eventually resolved down...
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