I just opened the envelope to look at my latest eBay-purchase and I found this: On the seller´s pictures it looked just like an average, worn and...
Even though it could be improved detail- and shape-wise, I think this Sestertius of Trajan Decius´ wife is above average in quality for a mid...
Here is my second catch from the new cgb.fr fixed price catalogue: This Sestertius does not only fit my love for unpatinated yellow brass, but...
I started the new year by picking three coins from the new cgb.fr fixed-price catalogue. Here is the first one, a Sestertius struck in...
I must admit that this is a little misleading since this is the one and only Tetradrachm that I ever owned :-). While this does not fit into my...
While I spent 2016 buying dozens of budget Sestertii in order to complete my portrait gallery, I restricted myself this year and tried to buy less...
I posted my Imperial Portrait Gallery here last year (https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-portrait-gallery.285774/) In the meantime I managed to...
I just realized that that this is already my fourth Gordian III coin despite me trying to own just one portrait of every emperor. Is that ability...
OK, before I write anything else I must admit that this coin is obviously in a horrible state. But if you pinch your eyes just a little bit, you...
There have been two neat threads on Tiberius´ and Drusus Junior´s coinage for Livia recently, so I won´t bother with a writeup here. Anyway, I...
This Tiberius arrived in the mail today - still no Sestertius, but a nicer portrait than my old Dupondius: [ATTACH] TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST...
Even though I try to restrict myself to bronzes, I also tend to be a completist, so I got carried away and bid up to 625 USD on this Niger...
I "need" an unpatinated Paulina Sestertius, but this offer looks like a cast to me (for example, it has a worn portrait but complete legends)....
[ATTACH] D CLOD SEPT ALBIN CAES - Bare head of Clodius Albinus right / MINER PACIF COS II S C - Minerva standing left, holding olive-branch in...
Hello everybody! After sending back my old Nerva Sestertius (which sadly had been condemned as a forgery by Sear) and deciding to stick with my...
[ATTACH] Severus Alexander tried to contrast himself from Elagabalus´ government and promoted his middle-of-the-road rule not only by honoring...
It was about July, 235. After building a ponton bridge over the Rhine, Maximinus the Thracian led the majority of the Roman field army, maybe...
Hi folks, I bought this rather nice looking coin yesterday: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] ... and I was very happy, until I found this specimen (sold...
I must excuse myself for showing another Nemausus Crocodile here, and one that is not on par with most of the ones usually seen here. It is...
I just took a little break from work and bid on these two bronzes form the collection of an Austrian scientist this morning. Not spectacular, but...
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