He examined the actual coin.
Nevertheless I have sent it to David Sear for evaluation anyway and... he has condemned it as a cast forgery today.
What a shame that the prototype for the 3/4 facing portrait, this bronze Medallion of Commodus in the British Museum, has fallen victim to a...
I do not collect silver, so I go a bronze Otho. Of course none where made in Rome, so I got the nicest Provincial I could find. Cost less than $...
You must mean these Aurei of Licinius I and II - they may be obtainable, but not really for me :-). Same goes for the facing Maxentius Aureus (I...
There have been other rare Imperial coins displaying full facing obverse portraits before (Denari of Augustus, a Bronze Medallion of Commodus) and...
Actually, according to C. Clay´s study, Macrinus´ Sestertii were struck with only 15 obverse dies in total, as compared to 11 Aureus dies...
Great OP and other Nervas! Here is my Sestertius: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Browsing thru the literature I collected for the writeup for my Macrinus Sestertius, I also learned more about the coin I intended to replace it...
Wow, Ro! I like yours, too!!! That is RIC 205, BMCR 106, C 129, Sear 7401 :) Do you have further info on it´s history? It is obviously not Clay´s...
I finally got to upgrade my shabby Macrinus AE As to a proper Sestertius. Macrinus was the first Emperor not of Senatorial rank, but a lawyer,...
Salonina Pudicitia Sestertius, ca. 262, Goebl 490y (1, same dies) (unlisted in RIC, Cohen, BM, and Sear). One of the last Sestertii struck in...
OK, I know that posting YET ANOTHER coin of Gordian III´s seems like a joke these days, but before you all ridicule me, here are my humble...
I have big Sestertii only: ... on the old list: Nero Claudius Drusus, # 150: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Runner-up: Didius Julianus, #145: [ATTACH]...
CNG just let me know that they are inclined to believe that the coin they sold was a cast and that mine was at least more LIKELY to be genuine...
Actually I did start building it in Minifig-Scale (1:50, like my Porta Nigra) instead of 1:200 but then I noticed that it would just look bigger...
This is a Temple in a classic layout (8 columns to the front, 12 to the sides) that many of the 200 or so temples in ancient Rome shared. Could...
Hi friends, I can finally share the news with you that I DID get my money back after a lengthy telephone discussion with the sellers expert (an...
Featuring the probably most common of all the ladies to be found on Roman coinage, this Sestertius of Faustina the Younger (minted by her father...
Here is another one on offer: http://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=981857&AucID=1910&Lot=937&Val=126ac6d09d458bb4f7d9f31bd46c2d6e...
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