[ATTACH] At 32 meters, the so-called "Porte de Mars" at Reims (France) is the widest surviving arch of the Roman world. It is the only remaining...
[ATTACH] MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM - laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Maximinus right VICTORIA GERMANICA S C - Maximinus, in military attire,...
David will send pictures and I asked him to present the cut-open box to his postoffice. I do wonder why a mailman would deliver an obviously...
One of the very rare (less than 70 known in total) Sestertii of Aquilia Severa: [ATTACH] IVLIA AQVILIA SEVERA AVG – diademed and draped bust...
Yes, it was that one and the one in Jersey City.
Thank you all for your kind words! I actually did send my coins via registered mail from Hamburg to California on April 29. Sadly the insurance...
Dear coin friends, I have just received the terrible (for me) news that an insured letter of mine on the way to certification in the USA was...
Thanks, Al! Your Sestertius is an exception to the rule because obverse and reverse are both well stricken and well centred on a full flan with...
Thank you Curtis for the info! Yes, the coin listed in your thesis is exactly the coin Banti illustrates.
This is the same emission as my coin, only from a different pair of dies. I am sure curtislclay could share interesting information about the...
I have been a lazy buyer lately because my Sestertius collection is basically complete now and the rise in prices keeps me from getting...
Here is my provincial Sestertius of Claudius with a different reverse type, but style-wise as good as they get: [ATTACH] TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG...
Wouldn´t Maxentius actually be the 8th emperor of the Tetrarchy chronologically (including the deceased Constantius Chlorus) or the 7th in office...
Authentic and beautiful Sestertius. I like the yellow orichalcum tone a lot. Here is mine to compare: [ATTACH] IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG...
My only Vabalathus (24 g / 32,8 mm) has the size and look of a gold medallion of 8 Aurei but sadly is neither gold nor ancient: [ATTACH]
I have posted this little gem a couple of time before, but it seems to fit here: One of the earliest coins ever made in what is now Ukraine (and...
And here are Sestertii of the following shorts-lived dynasties of the Soldier Emperors Philipp, Decius, and Trebonianus Gallus: Philipp the Arab:...
The rulers of the "Year of the Six Emperors" (238 A.D.) managed to put some highly individual portraits on their Sestertii: Maximus Thrax:...
[ATTACH] IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG – Laureate bust right, seen from behind, wearing paludamentum / IVNONI MARTIALI S C- Temple of Juno:...
No Sestertius of Nerva shown yet, so here is mine: [ATTACH] IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS III P P - laureate head of Nerva right FORTVNA...
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