Good news: The coin just came back from David Sear and he has certified it as authentic, very fine, and the second known specimen :-) The final...
For me, nothing beats realistic portraits :) [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Indeed it is. Even everyone in this forum who had voted on it before I broke the news thought it was genuine. I´d have to figure out how to do...
Well, this is the FOURTH time this has happened to me within ONE year! At least I got my money back in the first three cases and hope to do so...
He examined the actual coin.
Nevertheless I have sent it to David Sear for evaluation anyway and... he has condemned it as a cast forgery today.
What a shame that the prototype for the 3/4 facing portrait, this bronze Medallion of Commodus in the British Museum, has fallen victim to a...
I do not collect silver, so I go a bronze Otho. Of course none where made in Rome, so I got the nicest Provincial I could find. Cost less than $...
You must mean these Aurei of Licinius I and II - they may be obtainable, but not really for me :-). Same goes for the facing Maxentius Aureus (I...
There have been other rare Imperial coins displaying full facing obverse portraits before (Denari of Augustus, a Bronze Medallion of Commodus) and...
Actually, according to C. Clay´s study, Macrinus´ Sestertii were struck with only 15 obverse dies in total, as compared to 11 Aureus dies...
Great OP and other Nervas! Here is my Sestertius: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Browsing thru the literature I collected for the writeup for my Macrinus Sestertius, I also learned more about the coin I intended to replace it...
Wow, Ro! I like yours, too!!! That is RIC 205, BMCR 106, C 129, Sear 7401 :) Do you have further info on it´s history? It is obviously not Clay´s...
I finally got to upgrade my shabby Macrinus AE As to a proper Sestertius. Macrinus was the first Emperor not of Senatorial rank, but a lawyer,...
Salonina Pudicitia Sestertius, ca. 262, Goebl 490y (1, same dies) (unlisted in RIC, Cohen, BM, and Sear). One of the last Sestertii struck in...
OK, I know that posting YET ANOTHER coin of Gordian III´s seems like a joke these days, but before you all ridicule me, here are my humble...
I have big Sestertii only: ... on the old list: Nero Claudius Drusus, # 150: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Runner-up: Didius Julianus, #145: [ATTACH]...
CNG just let me know that they are inclined to believe that the coin they sold was a cast and that mine was at least more LIKELY to be genuine...
Actually I did start building it in Minifig-Scale (1:50, like my Porta Nigra) instead of 1:200 but then I noticed that it would just look bigger...
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