That is a beauty, for sure @Julius Germanicus It looks very high-relief too, like mine (though yours has much less wear). Thanks for sharing it!
Nobody seems to be calling "fake" on this, so I am feeling somewhat confident that it is legit.
Thanks, @ominus1 - I think it is definitely the deal of this year for me. When shopping on eBay you have to kiss (or at least look at) a lot of...
When a Nero sestertius shows up on eBay for $9.95 "buy it now," I find my trigger finger getting itchy. It was described only as "looks Roman" so...
This gives me an excuse to post, from my book collecting days, the world's worst 17th Century folio (14" x 9") edition of Pliny's Natural History...
Hadrian struck dupondii with laureate busts, c. 128-138. Below is one I have with no patina and you can see it is brassy. The one posted by...
In a thousand years, will dumbbell tooling be part of the art history/numismatic/ archaeological record? This showed up on eBay (Germany) a...
Interesting and informative as always, RC. Here is an as (RIC 1174) equivalent to the OP sestertius, I think - the torches are more vertical...
This thread had so many nice "trophies" that I thought I'd tag in and bring it back up from the distant, pre-COVID past. And because I just got a...
Lucius Verus and the poet Ezra Pound: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Lucius Verus Æ As (167-168 A.D.) Rome Mint [L VERVS AVG ARM PARTH...
I've always been lousy at genealogy! So perhaps, based on this post, and copying from RC above, the child on my sestertius is presumably...
Interesting thread. Here is a Marcus Aurelius as Caesar with only one child. One of his and Faustina's? Baby Commodus? [ATTACH] Marcus...
I'm glad to know you got the Roma example! That's a nice one for sure. :)
You might check out that link that @zumbly included in his post above - it is quite comprehensive in the whole Roman-cherub-torch-death thing....
I am resurrecting this thread (sorry, Thanatos) because I finally landed one of these Eros-Thanatos types, one I've been hankering for for a...
I think this is my favorite, if only because it is so heavy - 5.84 grams, which is about twice as heavy as these normally come. The neck beard is...
That's some mighty fine acquisitions you got there, @hotwheelsearl A while back I got a pair of those big Philips from Antioch, one of which I...
An interesting and informative thread. Topics like this make me look over my collection and see what I've already forgotten about. Here's a...
That is a lovely coin. Congrats. As for Antoninus Pius and Salus, I have no gold, but I have some sestertii. I did find a note on FORVM about...
Great Faustina Friday as always, @Roman Collector Here are my two, with and without stephane: [ATTACH] Faustina II Æ Sestertius Rome Mint...
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