Thanks - I have many more to post - you keep buying one after the other and next thing you know you have a collection. I have a medallic Commodus...
I love this type = and the irony it represents - at one time I had a close to perfect example purchased from Dianacoins - but foolishly sold it....
I have a number of coins still to go and thought I would continue to post in 10 coin batches: 1. Agrippa As - Neptune - this was from Dianacoins....
I had posted a Titus which I purchased recently from Leu. Mine is from a Thracian mint and I will repost - but first more coins from the box.
P.S. I have seen the Claudius before but do not recall where. There is something extra beautiful about the sestertii of the early emperors,...
Quantity isn't everything - these are beautiful - the Claudius is amazing!
And she had a mild case of frostbite in one of her toes about a year before and was eight months pregnant at the time she made the imprint
Hopefully, I can put up some more: 6. Sabina sestertius - Eagle Divvus type - I saw this (I think) on VCOINS and could not believe it - I thought...
In the early 2000's I became and still am friends with an eastern European dealer, since forced into retirement - another story - who sold me...
I spent an enormous amount of time doing a write up, had a lot of photographs of sestertii, hit save and the text disappeared. I will retry...
There are many magnificent bronze pieces struck for Septimius in the provinces, including one city particular city in the Balkans - I just do not...
The large portraits coins of Titus and NOT THRACIAN mints but LUGDUNUM! I apologize for the error - Lugdunum is in Gaul - not Thracia! I really...
Won this beautiful Titus sestertius in the latest Leu auction - the reverse is down below: [ATTACH] 34.5mm, 26.70 grams Titus struck a number...
There was a time when I used to look forward to the NY Coin show, practically counting the days when I would be able to see wonderful - but...
You are right about the AutoCorrect as I dictate these responses because I have screwed up the muscles in my right hand due to texting and use of...
I like how the celator did not care that the reverse figure intruded into the area of the inscription - I have a sestertius of Hadrian where this...
In looking at the denarii posted on this thread, I am impressed with how the mint was able to get the centering perfect on many of the coins - a...
I have always thought that the Rome mint coins of Septimius Severus and family were among the most beautiful in the imperial series during a...
I discounted many of my coins and lowered the price on some others. Also posted a bunch of new ones. I am soon going to receive 25 Alexandrian...
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