I made some more images of coins from the safety deposit box. These were coins - sestertius - purchased mostly from ebay between 1999 and 2012 or...
Fair enough - next time I do it I should post a before and after. In the first instance I could hardly make out the details on the coin since the...
Although the biblical coins I ordered have not come in yet, I put up some high grade URBS ROMA types and some greek bronzes with more to list, My...
Beautiful coin - I have had success with bronzes by putting a small bit of oil on them. I was just talking to a dealer - he uses 4 in one oil - I...
Here are the last ones I photographed - I have only two more I want to add after these: 1. Severus Alexander - Pax, purchased from a Serbian...
You are correct about Titus - I have been looking for a Titus from later in his reign for years but everything offered is too expensive for what...
Look pretty good to me, especially the Octacila Severa. Thats the thing about sestertii - if you compare two sestertii, unless one is perfect...
It refers to the river Tiber - sestertii found in water - if a bronze survives it - or in the desert where patina didn't cover the surface, leads...
I have to do a better job on the photos
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...
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