The denarius (meaning “containing ten”) made its appearance as a silver coin around 211 BC, during the Second Punic War. As its name implies, it...
Sestertius means “two and a half” and was originally worth 2½ asses = ¼ denarius during the period when a denarius was worth 10 asses. When the...
Although smaller denominations were coined, the Roman as was the smallest denomination commonly used in commerce. The dupondius, worth two asses,...
Domitian [ATTACH] Titus Flavius Domitianus was born in 51 AD, the younger of Vespasian’s two sons. He was the last of the Flavian emperors, as...
Titus [ATTACH] Titus Flavius Vespasianus was born in 39 AD. Being given the exact same name as his father (the emperor Vespasian) he would be...
Vespasian [ATTACH] Titus Flavius Vespasianus was born in 9 AD to an undistinguished family in Falacrinae, a village northeast of Rome. He was...
Vitellius [ATTACH] Aulus Vitellius would be the third emperor in the year of four emperors (69 AD), and would reign for eight months from April...
Otho [ATTACH] Otho was the second emperor in 69 AD, the “Year of Four Emperors.” His tenure would be even shorter than his predecessor Galba....
Galba [ATTACH] Servius Sulpicius Galba was born on December 24, 3 BC in Terracina, Italy to a well-connected and very wealthy family. His...
Nero [ATTACH] Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus in 37 AD) was Claudius’ great-nephew and Agrippina...
Claudius Tiberius Claudius Drusus, better known as Claudius, was born in Lugdunum (in Gaul) in 10 BC. He was the granson of Livia, Marcus...
Caligula [ATTACH] [ATTACH] (Note that the bust on the right, above, was restored to its original colors by indentifying particles trapped...
Tiberius [ATTACH] Tiberius Claudius Nero was Livia’s son and Augustus’ stepson. There is little recorded of Tiberius early life, although it’s...
Augustus Caesar (Octavian) [ATTACH] Augustus Caesar’s reign began an era of (relative) peace that has become known as Pax Romana (The Roman...
Following Julius Caesar’s assassination, Octavian (later to become better known as Augustus Caesar) left his military training in Apollonia,...
This is my 1,000th post on this site, and I thought I’d mark the occasion by kicking off a presentation of (most of) my small collection. Having...
Directly from Bertolami Fine Arts: [ATTACH] Tooling and smoothing? About EF? Why not just tool it until it's FDC? Maybe they should change...
Ran across this announcement while surfing the Internet today: [ATTACH] ONE OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD FIGURES IN HISTORY. Who's going to do the...
Described as "good very fine:" [ATTACH] Also candidly described as "tooled and smoothed." My question is, what sense does it make to grade a...
While my 2016 wasn't as prolific as most of the collectors on this site, it was nevertheless a banner year for me. Despite a small hiccup with a...
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