Great example on this Delmatius: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
LOL!! That's why I purposely bought these beauties! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
This may have set the price record for a Gallienus LIBERO P CONS AVG type, but I HAD to have it for the tiger. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Ah, yes. Dimitre Genov. Wonder whatever happened to him.
Fantastic acquisition for your collection and informative write-up! Super all around!
LOL!! Absolutely!
I get it. Coins are a small medium for an artist to work with. A goddess's face on the reverse might be just a few square millimeters in surface...
Isis breastfeeding the infant Horus on a denarius of Julia Domna: [ATTACH] Isis with a sistrum and situla on an antoninianus of Claudius II:...
That two-pence reminds me of @TIF's peanut butter cup that she posted in another thread!
This is the most worn but still identifiable coin in my collection. The ID is made by recognizing the portrait as belonging to Julia Domna and...
How about a different PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS of Herennius Etruscus? [IMG] Herennius Etruscus as Caesar, AD 249-251. Roman AR antoninianus, 3.83 g,...
I have done a lot of cherry-picking over the years, but most would consider it fly-specking: identifying coins with rare bust varieties, coins...
Wow! I took so long writing up my top three that several of you cross-posted before I could finish! Fantastic three, @ancient coin hunter ! I...
Sweet three, @Sallent ! My top 3 so far: #3. This cool provincial of Gordian and Tranquillina from Mesembria because it was very hard to...
Gorgeous!!!
Dynasty killer: [IMG] Maximinus I, AD 235-238. Roman Æ Sestertius, 26.7 mm, 18.01 gm. Rome, AD 236-238. Obv: MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM, Laureate,...
It's from an unknown eastern mint. Here's the listing (331A): [ATTACH] But that has a slightly different reverse legend. They footnote the coin:...
I have a couple (I need to rephotograph them, though). Imitative of a Constantine: [ATTACH] Imitative radiate: [ATTACH]
Just noticed there were dots between the abbreviated words in the obverse inscription of this sestertius: DIVAE FAVSTIN•AVG•MATR•CASTROR [ATTACH]
Yeah, it's RIC 1252; Cohen 1007: [ATTACH]
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