I have several post-Actium Augustus denarii that I wasn't ready to part with when I sold most of my Imperial coins, but I don't have pics of them....
One of mine: [ATTACH]
For the record, it realized 1050 Euro hammer, + commission.
Surprisingly I guess, banker's marks don't bother me all that much. If this were a crescent or some other unmistakable mark like that, even in the...
NOT in my collection, but an ex-Haeberlin coin I gave considerable thought to when it was offered by the German firm WAG in 2009. In the end the...
That's a really good coin Carthago, absolutely 1st rate. Well done.
Only jugate I have a picture of I think; C. Antius Restio, Crawford 455/2a, 47 BC: [ATTACH]
Except... as an after cast rather than an original struck Cavino, it isn't an authentic Renaissance medal either. Phil Davis
I think original struck Cavino medals, so-called "Paduans," are legitimately and unambiguously collectible as Renaissance medals. I don't think...
A very rare dolabella quinarius: [ATTACH] and a rare ROMA monogram: [ATTACH]
A scarce H variety, also ex RBW, with H behind rather than below the horses: [ATTACH]
I have no way to prove it obviously, but I'm inclined to think it's a prototype created by a master engraver, while the bulk of the issue was...
My best example of the L. Censorinus. The obverse die is really very nicely done. [ATTACH]
Bacchus on a Roman coin, with a lively depiction of his panther on the reverse: [ATTACH]
Same dies as Joe's Petillius Capitolinus, imo one of the finest obverse dies in the entire RR series: [ATTACH]
Same name, different guy. L. Torquatus: [ATTACH]
Calliope, the Muse of Epic poetry: [ATTACH]
The genuine rarity in the series is Crawford 353/1b, which has both CF and the ROMA monogram below the chin, surely by an engraver's error. The...
I imagine the Spain comment was a sarcastic reference to the Spanish claim to material from the Atocha and the like.
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