Very nice! Yours is from the Laodicea mint, RIC 639, RCV 6586. You can tell by the portrait style and by the ring on the side of her neck where it...
That coin saw some circulation! Imagine the soldiers, butchers, gladiators, wine-merchants, priestesses and architects that handled that coin....
Time to move on to Valerian I and Mariniana. Post 'em if you got 'em!
I'd be skeptical. A die-match doesn't rule out a cast fake; it may simply mean that someone made a mold from a real coin.
Love that Plautilla!
That's RIC 166, BMCRE 197, Cohen 586, Hill 432, RCV 6354. It may be a so-called "limes denarius," or simply underweight. Severan denarii...
That's supposed to be a denarius of Pescennius Niger, RIC 87d, BMCRE 315, RSC 75h, RCV 6126. If genuine, that coin would be > $1000. Suspect...
Cool Pegasus! I think the word is "Bourgogne". A collector's name, perhaps? Provenance? Here's one I bought because of the Pegasus: [ATTACH]...
Wow!!
That's a common reverse type from Nicaea. Here is her son -- on an issue from Nicaea -- and with a very similar reverse. [ATTACH] Severus...
It's really hard to get a good photo of a glossy black patina. This took a lot of photo-processing to make it legible. [ATTACH]
Beautiful!! I like the Otho tet and that's one sexy Libertas on the reverse of the Vitellius! And, of course, the "small change" Julius Caesar is...
My avatar coin -- a tribute penny: [ATTACH]
Its obverse inscription is in the Roman alphabet, not Greek, so it's not Antioch.
A Severina denarius. Nice.
I'm a big collector of Antonine women on coins, so the Faustina Jr Fecunditas denarius is my favorite.
Jaw-dropping!
Consecration issue for his wife: [ATTACH] Faustina I, Augusta AD 138-141, wife of Antoninus Pius Roman AR Denarius Rome, AD 147-161 3.10 g;...
Gotta love a Julius Caesar portrait denarius!
Nice example of that coin! I can see why it's your favorite.
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