As my collection kept growing and I want to restrict myself to one coin per ruler (preferably unpatinated Sestertii), as enforced by my...
Totally! We booked a behind-the-scenes-tour and got to climb inside the working volcano :-)...
Last weekend my son and me visited the world´s largest model railway, "Miniatur Wunderland", here in Hamburg. Apart from featuring 1.300...
My only coin in this price range is this Sestertius of Gordian I. According to my research it is the rarest official coin type of this ruler apart...
Your sons have a great dad! Mine would be envious! :-) He will inherit nothing but old brass...
Family reunion 2017 (Sestertii): [ATTACH]
This Macrinus Sestertius only cost me just a little more (1.150 USD in total, to be precise) than the Pertinax shown above, but it is miles above...
Pertinax never comes cheap in any state of preservation but I "needed" one for my portrait gallery :-) After my first attempt to buy a specimen...
It´s 9.30 AM in Germany right now and I do not feel like going to the office yet, so I´ll have another coffee and post something here instead :)....
Why not continue the series??? While I do not have any coins in the 600, 700 or 800 price bracket myself, I am sure I would not be the only one...
[ATTACH] TI CAESAR DIVI AVGVSTI F AVGVSTVS - Laureate head of Tiberius right PONT MAXIM COS III IMP VII TR POT XXI - Crossed cornucopias set on...
My only Tiberius for the time being, the largest brass coin of Tiberius available as a substitute for the portrait Sestertius that none of us have...
Got one more... bought this for 500 Euros at CGB last year and it was my most expensive coin then (OK, I have posted this several times before,...
That happens from time to time when your computer uses a german auto correction program on a foreign language text :-)
C CAESAR AVG GERMANICVS PON M TR POT - Laureate head of Caligula right / SPQR / PP / OB CIVES / SERVATOS in four lines within laurel wreath...
AGRIPPINA M F MAT C CAESARIS AVGVSTI - Draped bust of Agrippina Senior right, her hair waved and fastened in long plaid down the back of her neck...
Here it is: [ATTACH][ATTACH] It really was, I guess :-)
224 pages featuring 420 lots. A beautiful coffee table book that makes you wonder why you should spend money on museum catalogues. Volume-wise it...
Kricheldorf Auction 49, 20.02.2017 (410 € plus commission): [ATTACH][ATTACH] NERO CLAVDIVS DRVSVS GERMANICVS IMP - Bare head of Drusus left. TI...
The same applies to my Mariniana Sestertius... DIVAE MARINIANAE - Veiled, diademed bust of Mariniana to the right CONSECRATIO S C - Peacock...
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