I have an Antoninianus and a Sestertius of Herennius (can´t decide between the two for my one-per-ruler collection): [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yep. Here is my first Crispina - very well-worn but I still like it because of it´s golden Orichalcum tone - nevertheless I think the OP coin is a...
When Bruttia Crispina, the teenage daughter of twice Consul Gaius Bruttius Praesens and his wive Valeria, married the 16 year old Commodus in the...
Here is my Imperial large bronze portrait gallery how it was two and a half years ago: [ATTACH] Since then I have upgraded 24 coins and added...
I thought so as well because of the identical placing of the hole on my OP coin and the very similar piece I posted before. These two specimens...
"Veneri Gentrici" on my Sestertius can be translated as "to Venus the mother". A hope that would not come true for the empress with a husband like...
I had planned to order the painting of a large copy of a similar work of Alma-Tadema (featuring the Severan family in the Colosseum) for my dining...
Here is some of what he found out (translation by Google and myself including some editing): "There three kinds of barbarous imitations of gold...
No thread can be complete without a full size bronze :woot: [ATTACH] SER GALBA IMP CAESAR AVG TR P - laureate and draped bust of Galba right /...
Wow, how did you find it in there?! I wish I could understand Russian... Was it Goethe who said "The borders of our language are the borders of...
I don´t think so because the whole point of making these imitations was to produce substitutes for those original Aurei that did not enter the...
Wow, your Paulina is playing in a whole different league than mine! This is one of those rare coins where she is actually quite attractive...
That is an interesting question. I would say that the hole is indeed (still) gold-plated, as opposed to parts of the coin´s edge and some high...
Those are all incredible and must be among the finest known! (I especially like that Diocletian...) If you should ever decide to sell all of your...
While following a live auction with my little son, we saw a shiny coin with a hole in it. As it was coming up for a minimum bid of just 10 Euros,...
This coin is not pretty but it fills a gap in my Sestertius gallery and didn´t cost more than 100 USD which may be the minimum cost that one can...
My new Fortuna has got what it takes to make old Nerva´s mouth water :hungry: [ATTACH]
Left facing portrait dies were in fact prepared for most empresses of the 2nd and 3rd centuries. These were created by the best engravers and...
Uranius Antoninus, Defender of the East against Shapur, last of the Severans and Chief Priest of the Sun God of Elagabalus at Emesa, struck at...
Almost! Here is the same subject by someone else who also liked his easter eggs large :D: [ATTACH]
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