Wow, congrats! Amazing find!
Here are a couple of bronzes of Sev and his boss: [ATTACH] Julia Mamaea, AE Sestertius (30mm., 20.27g.), Draped bust r., wearing stephane. Rev....
“Someone who died from the plague while Emperor” Hostilian was reported to have died from the plague, though it was rumored that he may actually...
“Another coin featuring a Roman province” [ATTACH] Trajan Decius, Antoninianus ( 22 mm, 4.16 g), Rome. Radiate and cuirassed bust of Decius/ Rev....
I've consigned coins with Leu twice now, and it was a great experience both times. It costs maybe an extra $15-20 to ship internationally, but...
That's a very nice Carausius, I really like the portrait. I can share this Probus with an unnecessarily long neck. [ATTACH] Probus,...
Thanks! I love those posts...especially the incredible Nilus sculpture. I was lucky enough to see this statue at the museum in Naples a few...
Thanks to all for the nice comments and for sharing some beautiful examples. @zumbly, fantastic reverse! When it comes to big provincial bronzes...
Thanks Doug, I appreciate it. I love that series of reverses from "Emesa", and the first coin with Minerva/Athena holding the owl is just...
Thanks! I was expecting the surfaces to be much rougher, and was very pleasantly surprised when I got the coin in hand. Leu's photo of the coin...
Thanks for the info Victor, I appreciate it. I didn't realize that a gorgon is one of the defining features of an aegis, that level of detail is...
I recently added this large provincial bronze of Julia Domna from Cilicia, which is definitely my favorite new coin of the year so far. The...
This is my only FH coin, but after looking through these posts, I think I’m going to have to get some more of these. [ATTACH] Constantius Gallus,...
[ATTACH] Caracalla, Seleucis and Pieria. Antioch, BI Tetradrachm (27 mm, 12.00g), 215-217 AD. Laureate head of Caracalla to r./ Rev. Eagle with...
From how I read their email, it looks like some of the coins from the sale may have been acquired illegally from Yale around 60+ years ago. Good...
Thanks! Interesting that Victorinus was was the only Gallic empire to be deified...it would be fun to own a posthumous Postumus issue. :)
Great post and coin, @Claudius_Gothicus, I haven’t come across many of these, that’s a very interesting type. Just curious (if anyone knows), how...
Io Saturnalia! After a 2 month journey through USPS purgatory, my Saturnalia gift arrived yesterday! My gift was this nice denarius of a young...
Great post! Here’s a big bronze struck under Antiochus IV Epiphanes (likely) in honor of his victories over Egypt. The style imitates large...
Great write-up O! Here's a recent addition that I haven't posted before...my first bronze of Septimius, a provincial AE from Marcianopolis....
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