About two years after I started my Twelve Caesars collection, I had completed both the AR and AV set. My goal at that time had been to collect...
Despite my recent setback (the Hadrian Hispania aureus that was a forgery), I continue to pursue Hadrian’s travel series coins. The recent Gorny...
A couple of the early October auctions brought a few coins my way that I'll be showing over the next few days. Here is the first of them. I’ve...
No, this isn’t a treatise on how to “tool” an aureus to make it look better! Like any makeover, it consists of “before” and “after” pictures,...
The four Hadrian Hispania aurei below are apparently from the same sets of dies. Can you spot the subtle differences that distinguishes one of...
Since TIF made such short work of the first set of images, we'll move on to a second set using 12 Caesars' denarii, but this time only eyes and...
Inspired by the "Guess the Ruler" thread, I thought it might be interesting to see how hard or easy it would be to recognize each of the 12...
While I continue to search for the final two coins needed to round out my 12 Caesars collection, I also find myself inexorably drawn to the beauty...
Hadrian, known as one of the five good emperors, was born on January 24, 76 AD to a Hispano-Roman family. His predecessor as emperor was Trajan,...
One of the three remaining coins needed for my Twelve Caesars was a small bronze (as or dupondius) of Vitellius. These are quite rare in EF...
In the last few years, progress on completing my Twelve Caesars AE collection (sestertii and dupondius/as) has been very slow. It was only after...
While browsing some of the upcoming auctions listed on Sixbid's website, I came upon this Vitellius sestertius: [ATTACH] What I found amazing...
This is certainly an, ahem, unusual way of displaying this fairly high quality collection. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Their own description: "The...
[From Vcoins] THIS WEEK IN HISTORY The Second Triumvirate November 11th, 43 BC By Zachary Beasley Octavian had been involved in conflicts with...
Marriage in the Imperial Palace October 13th, 54 AD By Zachary Beasley [IMG] "Upon the murder of Caligula by the Praetorian Guards on January...
While it seems to me that most coins sold in higher-end auctions end up in the hands of collectors, many are purchased by dealers looking to...
Vespasian and his two sons -- Titus and Domitian -- ruled the Roman empire relatively benignly and competently from A.D. 69 to A.D. 96. During...
Artistic portrait sestertii of the 12 Caesars have been exceedingly scarce recently. Many that are available are either overly smoothed, or even...
In the last few years, it has become fairly difficult to find the bronzes needed to complete my 12 Caesars portrait collection. Somewhat...
This Titus Colosseum sestertius is being offered in an upcoming auction. The estimate is $80,000 and the opening bid is $40,000: [ATTACH]...
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