The production of full-size Sestertii ended in 263 AD at Rome with Gallienus (sole reign) and Salonina and in Gaul with Postumus. Here it is...
Nice Sestertii! I wonder if yours and the Specimen in Vienna are die matches. They are very helpful at the KHM and should send you pictures of...
I think I got about as far as possible on a medium budget with my portrait collection of Roman personalities in the largest bronze denomination...
Totally agree! One could further split the Principate into (at least) two phases, roughly before and after 260 AD: Until the joint reign of...
[ATTACH] 262 AD Salonina Sestertius, VF and 11,64 g
I did a little writeup on the historical background of this issue here:...
Congratulations! Those are all show stoppers and there is nothing to add to my namesake really. I admit to be envious.
Max and family Sestertii: [ATTACH]
My Sestertius of Salonina (seen above) with Pudicitia standing (not in RIC, BM, Cohen, Sear or Banti) was only known from a single specimen (Göbl...
Actually I have done so a couple of years ago, but that was just the front facade and I have since demolished it for the need of spolia:...
Left facing portraits were struck on bronze Medallions for all ruling Emperors and Empresses from Trajan to Severus Alexander (with the exception...
Last but not least, here is the last Roman Triumphal Arch: 10) The Arch of Constantine (315 AD), presented here in three different scales, was...
That is a great coin! Isn´t it strange that they only found remnants of ONE arch of Augustus on the Forum (which corresponds to the layout of the...
I discovered that my rough Sestertius is an unrecorded variant: [ATTACH] A VITELLIVS GERMAN IMP AVG P M TR P - Laureate and draped bust of...
Triumphal arches are a roman invention and surely among the most influential and destinctive types of imperial architecture. I have tried to...
[ATTACH] IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG - Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philipp I right, seen from behind SAECVLARES AVGG, S C in exerque -...
Cheers from Hamburg, Bing!
My heaviest Sestertius: [IMG] IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS III P P - laureate head of Nerva right FORTVNA AVGVST S C - Fortuna standing left,...
I just gave away my favourite and last Denarius (Julius Caesar) because I managed to replace them all with those hefty Sestertii :)
Thank you all! The National Museum in Rome is home to what must be the most spectacular surviving numismatic object of the migration period, the...
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