After reading the article posted by @zumbly and this interesting one, "Prolegomena to a Study of Eros on Roman Provincial Coinage" by Francis...
Lots of them. This is just a partial list of retail dealers I trust and in no particular order. Many (but not all) will have coins of Nero in...
Fantastic! That kind of customer service is why they've been in business for a century.
It's a seller you don't know. There isn't enough info to make a decision. You're having misgivings. I wouldn't buy it. It's not like Nero denarii...
That's a nice one, @zumbly ! Here Antony shares the honors with another: [ATTACH] Antony and Octavia. AR cistophorus, 25.6 mm, 11.71 gm....
I spent much of Saturday evening photographing specimens from my Faustina I subcollection. For some reason, I had never bothered to photograph...
Photographing some long-neglected coins in my collection, I noticed that Pietas on this dupondius is exceptionally curvaceous: [ATTACH] Faustina...
That coin has a lot of eye-appeal, @maridvnvm ! Can't wait to see the rest of your haul!
Cool! An ἀφιέρωσις inscription!
Show your empress CONSECRATIO issues or anything you feel is relevant! One important aspect of Roman religion, particularly for the imperial...
I generally have mine arranged chronologically by figure on the portrait, subdivided by BMCRE catalog numbers, followed by provincial issues for...
Yes, there is die shift/doubling. But is this an overstrike? What might be the undertype? [ATTACH]
BMCRE has a lot of info in its introductory material. Take this, for example, from BMCRE4: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
No. Although it looks similar, that depicts the temple of Divus Augustus and Diva Augusta and shows an octastyle temple with two seated figures...
An update to the OP. I have since acquired two similar denarii, each issued earlier and for the dedication of the temple in AD 143. The first...
Unscrupulous! Dubious indeed!
Here is a hand-shaking coin. It represents the "harmony of the armed forces," i.e. the union of the forces, both on land and at sea, during the...
Horse: [IMG] Valerian I, AD 253-260, Roman provincial AE 19 mm, 4.83 g, 7 h. Troas, Alexandria Troas, AD 253-260. Obv: IMP LICINI VALERIANV,...
Lovely coin, @David Atherton ! Very nice style and toning. I have an Antiochene issue for Domitian: [ATTACH] Domitian as Caesar, AD 69-81 Roman...
Wow -- lots of possibilities ... Faustina II as mother of Commodus, Domna as mother of Caracalla and Geta, Soaemias as mother of Elagabalus,...
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