Here is last coin: 11) Trebonianus Gallus [ATTACH] This is certainly a cast as is evident from the little "bubbles". I am convinced the seller...
Yesterday I bought a bargain mixed lot that was advertized as including 11 low grade Sestertii. When I picked it up I realized that what I had...
Here is an Imperial Germanicus to compare: [ATTACH]
The biggest (non-medallic) Sestertii that I could find on AC Search are: Claudius, Nero - 40 mm Faustina I - 36,26 g
Update: A double die matching specimen (the one pictured earlier in this thread that is neither plated nor holed nor looped) to my OP coin is now...
Galba: 37,06 mm [ATTACH] Nerva: 31,2 g [ATTACH]
I am lucky to be in Trier to celebrate Marcus´Aurelius birthday while in view of his greatest surviving architectural marvel, the Porta Nigra!...
Thank you everybody! Those are neat!!! In a better world or parallel universe, I would love to have a complete portrait gallery in silver AND...
After managing to acquire both Gordian I and II and to upgrade all of the other rulers from the beginning of the Age of the Soldier Emperors, I...
There is a total of 13 Medallions of Numerianus from the Rome Mint (Gnecchi 7-10) known according to the database for the upcoming revised edition...
I only have one coin from this dynasty, but it is the rarest in my collection and probably has the best pedigree: [ATTACH] IMP C AVR (sic, for...
Thank you so much! ...from "An old-time collection of Roman Sestertii" :-)
May I ask if one of you has access to this catalogue and can let me know the info included for lot No. 420? That should be this Pertinax...
If anyone is interested in an update: David Sear has just confirmed my theory that all three OP coins do in fact show Gordian I and not Gordian II...
Here is my Macrinus As from Rome, published on Wildwinds and seemingly one of only three recorded specimens of RIC 171 : [ATTACH]
Thanks everybody!!! My hunt for the "perfect Nerva" took me three years and four purchases... First (when I still had the strength to restrict...
The Daily Mail article is a crass exaggeration. According to Andrew Burnett (who alone examines 24 specimens in his paper "The Coinage of...
Mattingly and Sydenham have commented that Nerva’s coin portraits are consistent in depicting his "ungainly" features without modification....
Big fat Sestertii: [ATTACH] IMP CAES P HELV PERTINAX AVG - laureate Head of Pertinax right PROVIDENTIAE DEORUM COS II S C - Providentia standing...
I got it for 210 USD plus comission and postage and am quite happy with that :-)
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