In the mail today: [ATTACH] IMP CAES M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG P M - Bare headed bust of Marcus Aurelius right, with light drapery on his left...
Yes, that´s the old man - the hairline is barely visible but it´s still there. Gordian I does not look like 79 years old on any of his coins, so...
I did just that - my Julius Caesar Divos badly needs improvement, but my Otho from Antioch probably is as good as they get (graded "EF with...
Two more to go for me :-) [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
A couple of hours ago during lunchbreak on this sunny day I took the bike to visit my very first ever floor auction and this is what I took home...
I also won a Marcus Aurelius from the Stoecklin Collection :-). Coin is still in the mail, so here are the seller´s pictures: [ATTACH]
History needs to be rewritten. Unless nobody else has done so yet, I hereby proclaim the obvious: Sibannacus was no Usurper, but indeed the 43st...
Update: The OP coin was finally sold for 2000 CHF = 2.111 USD (plus 20 % buyer´s fee) yesterday - more than 13 times the minimum bid. Out of...
I have these two budget Caesars: [ATTACH] - / CAESAR Diademed head of Venus right, with Cupid behind shoulder / Trophy of Gallic arms, composed...
I think about getting this Trajan Sestertius. [ATTACH] The seller confesses "slightly smoothed fields", but doesn´t it look like that some...
OK, I´ll try to make a start :) The eight (presumably genuine) coins of the type illustrated in the OP seem to come from five obverse dies, which...
Here is my Agrippina (senior) with the carpentum reverse: [ATTACH] AGRIPPINA M F MAT C CAESARIS AVGVSTI - Draped bust of Agrippina Senior right,...
The special thing about the OP coin (apart from it being probably the finest known example of it´s type) is that it shows Agrippina JUNIOR, last...
I admire the die studies A.M Woodward has done on the die combinations of the Sestertii of Pertinax and Didius Julianus (sadly he did not manage...
Here is my 20 USD-budget-Crocodile that survived being broken into small change :) [ATTACH] Has anybody figured out yet if these were made in...
Thank you everybody for posting your coins!!! Here is a reunion of Trajan Decius´ family in Sestertius format, even though strictly speaking...
At least we didn´t have to mortgage our homes :-)
Thanks everybody for the comments and the neat coin-pics! Here is my humble Double Sestertius that I intended to upgrade with the OP coin......
Here is my budget version :-) [ATTACH] AGRIPPINA M F MAT C CAESARIS AVGVSTI - Draped bust of Agrippina Senior right, her hair waved and...
Today I filled another missing spot in my Sestertius collection (five more to go now...). Sestertii of Herennius Etruscus never ever come in the...
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