While still waiting for my last purchase of 2020 to arrive and browsing older top 10 lists on CT, I realized that I never posted a list for 2016...
Here is my Livia (as Pietas) [ATTACH] PIETAS - below veiled, diademed and draped bust of Livia, as Pietas, right / DRVSVS CAESAR TI AVGVSTI F...
According to David Sear, "although she is not specifically named on these coins, it seems impossible to identify the lady in question as anyone...
Portrait Sestertii of Tiberius should not be "obscure" at all. Taking into account the facts that the vast majority of roman imperial Coins...
Can´t wait for Saturnalia and can´t post my Top Ten for this year because my last purchase is still in the mail. But as I feel like posting...
Beautiful Denarii, Donna! And amazing detail on the Genius. One can actually make out from the shape of the beard that neither emperor can be...
I received tracking confirmation from the mail that my gift was delivered to it´s recipient a couple of weeeks ago, but he has not reported here...
Exactly what I think :-)
RIC IV (1934) does not explain it´s rarity scale, but I know a total of 5 specimens of RIC 194. Apart from your Sestertius those are: Same pair...
If you want a SESTERTIUS of Pertinax however, you will have a hard time. For my die study I could find no more than 130 published specimens. I...
I do not really understand French, but haven´t shown my Pertinax for a while: [ATTACH] IMP CAES P HELV PERTINAX AVG - laureate Head of Pertinax...
I find the flanof the OP coin a little too thick (could it have been hammered?), there is unusually little wear on the letters, and the centring...
[ATTACH] IMP C POSTVMVS P F AVG - Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Postumus right P M TR P COS II PP - Postumus, helmeted and in military...
OMG Sitting here with my mouth open, unable to add anything to that.
I checked. It is only 27 mm and struck with As dies, so it is definitively an As. (Curtis, this is the Morris coin that I questioned to be...
What a collection! Incredible artistry and eye appeal on those coins, congratulations! Makes my Sestertii look rather pale in comparison...
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Aestimare, In my die study of the Sestertii of Aquilia Severa I could locate a total of 9 specimens of RIC 389 (compared to 58 of RIC 390), all...
I received my first Saturnalia gift today! It is so big and heavy and looks so carefully packed - puts mine to shame I fear. My Avgvsta took the...
Gorgeous selection! I´m especially jealous about that Julius Caesar and those Aurei!
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