I was notified that some of you pushed the "like" button for my OP coin yesterday eventhough it has been drowned down in the old posts graveyard...
I actually saw this movie at a film festival. It is certainly not for the faint-hearted. [MEDIA]
Here is my Vespasian with a weak portrait but a neat Pax: [ATTACH]
Very nice! But how could this be applied to ancient bronze coins? What would the maximum grade achievable by any existing specimen be? Would a...
Thank you all for your thoughts! This is what Moruzzi sais about the parameters for their grading: https://shop.moruzzi.it/en/info.html#rarita...
This may be old news for many of you, but I just discovered a new grading system used by Italian dealer Moruzzi which incorporates not only...
Here is my coin of this type, from dies of very similar layout (maybe even the same celator?) to the OP coin, of lesser grade, but (I hope) more...
Birthday greetings from Germany!
A little update (sorry it took more than a year but I had other things to do in the meantime): This coin here is now offered as a Sestertius of...
Great pictures and always worth a visit! By coincidence I also managed to spend a couple of hours at the BM last weekend :). Here are two more...
Bronze coins of Orbiana are rare as such. The best source for the relative rarity of 3rd century Sestertii is the Guelma hoard of 7.495 Sestertii...
I gave it a perfect 10, because in my oppinion this coin is not only of fine style and free of problems, but in featuring the most attractive type...
I wish I could show a Sestertius with the happy couple clasping hands, but I only have the more common version with Concordia seated: [ATTACH]...
In the major collections he checked, Alberto Banti (I Grandi Bronzi Imperiali, Vol. IV-2) found 30 specimens of the version without a scroll (BMC...
This may be totally at odds with the common practice, but I also consider myself a purist even though I do it the other way around: I restrict...
My newest Sestertius is only of mediocre quality, but the type is quite rare and interesting. IVNO CONSERVATRIX was the very first reverse type...
Great collection of Sestertii ! Here is one of her sister with VENVS CAELESTIS: [ATTACH] [IVLIA] SOAEMIAS AVG - Diademed and draped bust of...
Here they are (all Sestertii, including Maximus as a bonus 238 Caesar plus the two Philipps and Decius which were the next in line after Gordian...
I just received NAC´s 1995 catalogue of the Friedrich Collection of more than 2400 Sestertii. And guess what: in the 1900 lots illustrated there...
Thanks everybody! My camera broke and I still didn´t d manage to figure out how to make decent coin fotos with my cell phone. Has three cameras...
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