Nice series, also very lucky to have the COS 1 with great detail, probably very rare, congrats.
That's a nice Augustus portrait Bing.
Probably the best way of telling is to measure across the die stamp on reverse between two columns victories are standing on, mine is 9mm, if...
Or it could be an As clipped in antiquity, here is my semis, it is 18mm, 5.27gm. Augustus.[ATTACH]
By it's weight and diameter it seems to be a semis (half an As) both Augustus and Tiberius issued them, that could be a TIB (Tiberius)...
Great coin, I love Athena walking, fantastic detail.
Another beautiful coin zumbly.
It definitely is a very attractive coin, congrats.
I was like you for a while collecting anything, until I settled on architecture, my suggestion is look at your coins and the ones that intrigue...
Very nice highlights of the galley Eric, Is that bronze highlight on a dark patina background?
Seeing just about every Hadrian coin ever minted 90% Eric :D, is in this thread I will slip this Neptune sestertius in to balance it up a bit,...
That's a very nice Otho randygeki, looks like good silver content and now you have 11 Caesars. I have two Alexandrian Otho both not as good as...
In Sept last year I ran this thread on a coin that had bronze disease https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-first-case-of-bronze-disease.283504/ I...
Almost forgot I had another Elagabal from Nicopolis with a temple in perspective, shield in pediment, trees in background and below that a pic of...
Nice one alde, I agree with Tif and Doug these coins are hard to find with everything right, this one of mine was bought because I wanted a...
Love that top of your list leaning on a column, you guys are getting me interested in Elagabalus.
Thank-you, I actualy bought that coin from Israel, it is a shame it is on a tight flan but in hand looks like dug up out of desert sand, and hard...
As a collector of architecture, I stumbled across this Elagabalus, Judea, Neapolis, 218-222 AD, 21.5mm, 10.3gm, Mount Gerizim surmounted by temple...
Very interesting and informative write up, as for those denarius, the two Elagabalus, are fantastic but I really love the sacrificing over the...
Horses have all bolted in my collection except one, Augustus, 8-7 BC, Gaius Caesar galloping right, AR Denarius, 18mm, 3.28gm, RIC 199, Sear...
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