That would have made sense, but it seems not to have been the case: Amandry in 1986 listed 49 specimens of my variety with the Julius Caesar...
Last week I visited the bank safe and managed to assemble an up-to-date group photo of my Sestertius portrait gallery: [ATTACH] Here are the...
I just bought a Sestertius of Julia Maesa on Ebay that features what I find is a very nice portrait of this empress plus a rounder flan than my...
Hey Donna, I started like you with my first Sestertius five years ago, promising myself to never spend more than 100 USD on a coin and limiting...
David Sear in the Millenium Edition of his “Roman Coins and their Values” (p. 302, Nr. 1569 and 1570) explicitly presents these coins as “Bronze...
While Octavian was active in the south of the Italian peninsula in 38 b.C, he used Tarentum as base port for his campaign against the renegade...
Actually it was my mistake because I just found out that this book is correctly cited as "MIR" as it is part of a series called "Moneta Imperii...
Michael Alram is an austrian numismatist who has published a crucial study on the coinage of Maximinus Thrax, Maximus and Paulina in 1989 (it is...
Thank you very much for your kind comments and for showing your Paulinas! Yesterday I was able to acquire a copy of Michael Alram´s study "Die...
My Nr.1 dream coin right now is a handsome Sestertius of Aemilian, the last Emperor missing from my Sestertius collection: [ATTACH] Nr. 2 would...
Today my first ever purchase from NAC arrived. It is a huge improvement over my first Sestertius of Paulina which is pictured here and was only a...
Pupienus and Balbinus: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Gordian I and II: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I have a Roman mint bronze: [IMG] M OPEL ANTONINVS DIADVMENIANVS CAES, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Diadumenian right SPES PVBLICA...
Great Domitia! I need to get a Cistophor myself. This Empress will be one of the most difficult for my collection, because I would have to find a...
This was my first NAC auction also and I am happy with winning this: [ATTACH] DIVA PAVLINA Veiled and draped bust r. CONSECRATIO Paulina,...
Great observation! Mine is from a different reverse die, but the obverse portraits seem to be too similar to be from different dies. If so, could...
Nice! Mine is very similar: [ATTACH] IMP M OTHO CAE AVG , laureate head of Otho right / large S C within laurel wreath Bronze As or 4 Chalkoi...
What a sad story. This coin was described as "by far the finest specimen known" in NAC´s 2013 catalogue. It certainly held the title of the most...
Thank you for the interesting history! According to my Gorski and Packer (in their work on the Forum Romanum), the "Column of Phokas" was...
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