My favourite Patina... "Lovely Mahagony tone with lighter tones on the high points" (Forum Ancient Coins): [ATTACH] or, depending on lighting...
I have had the same experience with my first Pertinax Sestertius. After seeing two other specimens (both initially found to be genuine by the...
It came in the mail today and looks quite fabulous in hand! [ATTACH] While it is certainly cast, it looks like a quite sharply "struck" coin...
My only item from Antioch, but maybe the best portrait of Otho on any AE coin: [ATTACH] IMP M OTH]O CAE AVG - Laureate head of Otho right S C...
Thanks. That is exactly what I tried to achieve because the main reason I bought them ist to be part of a much bigger picture: a complete and...
Each of them cost 50 % more than any of my other coins :dead:
Many of Reusing´s coins have even older pedigrees which are listed in his hand written inventory updated by Schürer - mine was from the collection...
My two most expensive Sestertii were (and will always be) this father and son duo: [ATTACH]
Eventhough the reverse on my Trajan Decius is not as good as the portrait, I would say the draco looks rather donkey-ish here as well: [ATTACH]...
After giving a new member the advice to check out a cheap Sestertius of Trajan or Hadrian, I realized how much I regret having sold my own first...
PS.: Here is the Medallion from the same obverse die (Gnecchi II/110/4): [ATTACH]
I bought this coin, described as a tooled AE As by London Ancient Coins, as a cheap placeholder for a Sestertius of Salonina because I liked the...
Do you have Olding´s printed Catalogue? There is a lot of info about Reusing, Schürer, and their collection in there!
The name of "Morris" has been published by CNG now. To my knowledge he was born in 1941 and may still be alive.
While in hand it doesn´t make much difference if a Sestertius weights 20 or 30 gr, one with a 37 mm flan certainly plays in another league than...
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