Probably not an oversight!! After seeing a bronze with this same design and reading the dealer's caveat that the coin had been smoothed, I...
Very nice. You might be interested in some recent threads we've had about Gallienus' coins of Antioch here and here.
Let's see your coins of Faustina you consider to be of "fine style"! I have a handful of denarii in my collection whose portraits are quite...
On yours, the figure is Venus Victrix and those two figures at her feet are prisoners of war. This is rather unconventional iconography for Venus....
[IMG] Magnentius, AD 350-353. Roman billon heavy maiorina, 4.68 g, 20.1 mm, 6h. Arles, AD 352. Obv: D N MAGNEN-TIVS P F AVG, bare-headed, draped...
My HILARITAS sestertius of Lucilla is a smoothie, too. Its provenance information was lost in a computer crash in 2008. It weighs 24.48 g. [ATTACH]
How about Venus and Mars in one coin? [IMG] Faustina II, AD 147-175. Roman Æ as, 11.96 g, 25 mm, 6 h. Rome, AD 170-175. Obv: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA,...
Thanks, Victor. The CONS-ERVATORI one at the top is somewhat lighter and somewhat smaller in diameter if that sways you to RIC vii, p. 542, 6.
Both of these are RIC 73, but the reverse legend is broken differently. Is there a specialist catalog or reference that assigns them different...
Nope. I was wrong in the details of the reverse. The one I posted has a different reverse type. Although there is a scepter on your coin, PIETAS...
You hit the jackpot!! That is very rare. It is not listed in RIC, Cohen or Sear. It is no. 536 in Temeryazev and Makarenko's The Coinage of Roman...
Today's Franklin's World depicts the moon goddess Diana Lucifera/Selene as being tired of yo-yo dieting (waxing and waning)! [ATTACH] Here's a...
My first sestertius! It started a lifelong Faustina fascination. I love the smooth black patina on this one! [IMG] Faustina Senior, AD 138-141....
Mama, oooh ... I don't wanna die; I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all! [MEDIA]
Fantastic deals! Nice looking coins, too. I have the as version of your Lucilla coin but not the sestertius: [IMG] Lucilla, AD 164-169. Roman...
Dative singular. Nero, -onis is a 3rd declension noun.
[IMG] Gordian III, with Tranquillina Roman provincial Ӕ 30 Tetrassarion Thrace, Anchialus, AD 238-244 Obv: AVT K M ANT ΓOPΔIANOC AVΓ CEB...
The far left one is from Philippopolis for sure; probably Marcus Aurelius or Commodus by the portrait. Similar to this one (but with a bare-headed...
Elephant! This one is ex-Houghton: [IMG] Laodike IV, wife and sister of both Seleucus IV and Antiochus IV. Selucia in Pieria, 175-164 BC. AE...
The coin appeared last year in a Kunker sale. So, UP UNTIL @shanxi posted the other two examples, I was going to say that it appeared to be known...
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