Do you mean RIC II.3?
Roman Republic, C. Fonteius, AR Denarius, 114-113 BCE. Obv. Laureate, Janiform head of the Dioscuri, control mark N under left chin [mark of value...
Interesting article, although the very antiquated use of the term "race" as a purely ethnic/geographic/Italian vs. barbarian term, having nothing...
Thanks for the correction. But I would think that some of the information in the older RIC volumes on the number of institutions possessing a...
RIC offers no opinion on authenticity?
I think it's rather humorous that the seller says "19 sold, 5 available" -- as if the number of times he or she can sell access to pdfs is finite,...
Did you subtract the numbers for "very rare" and "extremely rare" from the "rare" total to avoid double-counting, given that the number of...
What does RIC say about this?
Something very fishy about this. Sets usually go for around $1,000, at a minimum. I doubt that's a photo of what's actually being sold.
But the shoulders are never completely bare, right? They're always draped and/or cuirassed. So there's nothing in between the so-called bare...
But isn't the drapery, the cuirass, etc. what makes it a bust? Without that, it's a head. (Not literally, because the neck is there, but that's...
Ah, it's Romanpaulus again! Fascinating. I guess the OP's coin provides the necessary confirmation of this variety.
So it seems to be a previously-unrecorded variety!
Then it's not BMCRE 214 either, because that also has a different obverse legend -- the same one as RIC III 59 -- beginning with "IMP." For the...
It's RIC III 59.
I like the Galba portrait too. It's how I imagine him, at least. I also think Augustus and Caligula, among others, are quite recognizable.
OK, I guess Helena.
Unless that's Fausta or Helena, I have no idea. Even if I were right, I'm afraid I don't have the skills or the patience or the software to be...
The only other (relatively minor) issue I have is that the skin coloring is essentially speculative, except to the extent it follows...
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