Rome mint IMP II coins are one of the few things I keep an eye out for in the background for sleepers...... This one looks like a double die...
I had a soft spot for these a few years ago and gathered a few... here is a small sample Siscia [IMG] Rome [IMG] Trier [IMG] Arles [ATTACH]
Doug has a much wider variety of Minerva than me with a host of types to be envious of. I have a few coins to flesh the types out a bit further....
In response to @dougsmit 's seated Fortuna types I thought I would copy where necessary and add some others if/where I can..... I have a double...
@dougsmit I think that your CO II is in fact a COS I with the S being vague on your example but is visible(ish) on my example of the die [IMG]
@dougsmit has illustrated several coins that appeal to me immensely and resonate with my way of collecting. His first coin with the broken die...
Obv:– IMP CAE L SEP SE - V PERT AVG COS I, Laureate head right Rev:– IOVI PRAE ORBIS, Jupiter, seated left, holding Victory and sceptre, at feet...
Nice one @Bing I know that I have a couple of these knocking around somewhere. This one came as part of a mixed lot and has me puzzled. The style...
@dougsmit I only have a single obverse brockage to share.... It's not as nice as yours and probably deserves the effort of me tracking it down and...
It is the overall style of engraving that is different and there are not simple "tells" such as the position of the wings. I can only advise that...
Here are my two most recent Postumus purchases. Obv:– IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right Rev:– PACATOR ORBIS,...
As a follow on from @ambr0zie 's Rome mint RIC 144B I thought it worth illustrating the equivalent coin from Laodicea-ad-Mare that is...
As a follow on from @Bing 's BONI EVENTVS from Tuesday.... There is a scarcer variant of this type where Fides faces the other direction Obv:-...
Obv:– IMP C M Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, Radiate, cuirassed bust right Rev:– PANNONIAE, The two Pannoniae facing each other, holding a standard...
At the tail end of the production on the eastern mints the coins started to align much more with the output of Rome. The later coins adopted the...
I great example of the type with superb artistry.
Probus liked Sol in various guises..... [IMG] [IMG] as above (which is Rome, globe and whip) but in the clouds (from Siscia, globe) [IMG] Sold...
A small selection of other mints.... By the way I don't actively collect these types.... London [ATTACH] COMITI AVGN NN [ATTACH] Rome [IMG]...
Also worthy of note to those looking for minutiae there are a whole host of chlamys over left arm. chlamys over both shoulders..... which have Sol...
Aurelian re-opened the Lugdunum mint in A.D. 274 and Sol was one of the types in these early issues Obv:– IMP C AVRELIANVS AVG, Radiated...
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