Beautiful coin! And RARE!
Jeez! You are right about the reverse - stunning - some of the celators in the boondocks obviously had great skill - a lovely coin! Too bad...
Valerian I Sestertius 14.01 grams 30mm RIC 184 - noted as common, but a check of databases indicates that rare or scarce would be more accurate....
Let me add one other detail - the extra "I" is muich more clear on the coin than the photograph - I suspect it was an error, but interesting all...
Curtis - thanks again! I will try to photograph the coin and put it up tonight - you might be able to see it on this link on ebay:...
A few month back I purchased an Elagabalus sestertius from a Spanish seller with LIBERALITAS AUGUSTIIII with the last “I” not very well struck - i...
Curtis - I just reread this - how do you identify a sestertius of Julia Donna from the middle period? It never even occurred to me that coins...
My birthday wish is that the ancient coin market would go back to what it was like in the early 2000’s - a buyers market. I still wonder what...
obverse - clearly
P.S. Forumcoins has an excellent database of phony ancients - I use it whenever I suspect a coin is fake and it has been amazingly useful. I...
Slabbing doesn't really translate that well to ancients - note that very rarely, actually almost never, do you see major auction houses sell...
I do not have any coins of Max, but some months back I read the ancient historian Herodian’s description of the reign of Maximinus and it...
Thank you again Curtis for a wonderfully interesting and informative response. I was wrong about the die match for the Caracalla - I had mixed it...
Thank you Doug - You are right about the die link - I had it confused with two other examples - I am so pressed for time lately but that is a poor...
Rarity is an odd concept in ancient coins, where, as I have mentioned elsewhere, even collectors of modest means can own coins that are unique....
This is my continuation of the above: All three of these coins were struck at the time that Septimius was campaigning in Britain ca 211AD. The...
Oddly enough the ACSEARCH site lists only three examples of Elagabalus sestertii with a Salus reverse, with 13 different Quadriga types - but...
Curtis - Lat week I posted a sestertius of Septimius Severus on this site with the same reverse as RIC 483(a), and Geta RIC 186. I was unable to...
terrific coins! I have a die match of the Aquila Severa that I should post.
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