Nice Lugdunum coins all! I came. I saw. I bought. :) Your Augustus Sestertius is true awe-inspiring! What you have there is surely one of the...
Poor man´s gold: My brassy Sestertii and Dupondii posing with the Aurei on the back of Sear Vol.II: [ATTACH]
OK, before I write anything else I must admit that this coin is obviously in a horrible state. But if you pinch your eyes just a little bit, you...
I managed to buy one of those today :). But it is clearly not in the condition you are seeking. Not even close. Not even miles away.
There have been two neat threads on Tiberius´ and Drusus Junior´s coinage for Livia recently, so I won´t bother with a writeup here. Anyway, I...
This Tiberius arrived in the mail today - still no Sestertius, but a nicer portrait than my old Dupondius: [ATTACH] TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST...
I´ve got Pertinax, Didius and Albinus, albeit as Sestertii. But then those Sestertius-sized provincial bronzes of Niger (minted in Caesarea...
Even though I try to restrict myself to bronzes, I also tend to be a completist, so I got carried away and bid up to 625 USD on this Niger...
That is an outstanding, sensitive portrait and wonderful toning on the second OP coin! Here is my Decius Sestertius (nobody likes it, but I do):...
Thanks :-). That picture is a year old and a work-in-progress. But I did some improvements since then - replaced the five casts with original...
It´s a personal taste of mine. I prefer my Sestertii unpatinated because I just like that yellow tone :-) [ATTACH]
Could be, but all I have so far are those seller´s pictures. Meanwhile I found the following genuine (?) coin which comes close to being a die...
I "need" an unpatinated Paulina Sestertius, but this offer looks like a cast to me (for example, it has a worn portrait but complete legends)....
[ATTACH] D CLOD SEPT ALBIN CAES - Bare head of Clodius Albinus right / MINER PACIF COS II S C - Minerva standing left, holding olive-branch in...
Love that Gratian!
Hello everybody! After sending back my old Nerva Sestertius (which sadly had been condemned as a forgery by Sear) and deciding to stick with my...
That would certainly do for now :-p
Thanks everybody for showing you Thracian Giants! My coin helped me to convince my girl to visit the Harzhorn Battle site next year which is only...
Thank you all for showing your great Alexanders (all better than my humble piece)! I just read (in Paul N. Pearson´s biography on Maximinus...
Thank you all for your thoughts and more interesting Crocodiles! So my coin would be the second Emission, RIC 155, RPC 523, Sear 1729, that is...
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