Here is a scarce and iconic type of Trajan. It is missing most of it´s inscriptions due to wear but still is nice in hand and features my favorite...
When Gaius Messius Quintus Decius was confirmed as emperor by the Roman Senate in October 249, the month after his victory against Philippus Arabs...
The coins of the younger Faustina might survive in higher numbers than those of any other Roman lady. Nevertheless they can be quite handsome and...
My new Pupienus Sestertius arrived today and I it feels quite nice in hand - I can even tolerate the patina :-) - plus it is quite hefty for a...
[ATTACH] This Vitellius Sestertius is rather light at 19,5 gr and small at 32 mm. There are more casts than originals of this type around. I...
...on June 9, 68 a.D., Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus called out his famous last words: "qualis artifex pereo". For this occasion,...
[ATTACH] IMP CAES M AVR SEV ALEXANDER AVG - Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right IOVI VLTORI S C - Jupiter, laureate, wearing cloak over...
Well I did twice and here is what I got: Faustina II Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 161. FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, draped bust right / FECVND AVGVSTAE,...
Here are some impressions of the Harzhorn Battlefield for those of you who do not have a chance to visit it. Beware - the site is impossible to...
The big Thracian would have liked this!!! Now on my breakfast table: maybe for the first time ever a Roman Soldier Emperor gets the cover story...
[ATTACH] Located at the world heritage site of Leptis Magna in present day Libya, this four-way (tetrapylon) triumphal arc was most likely...
I still needed an Augustus to complete my Sestertius portrait gallery and as I love yellow bronzes I could not resist buying this budget example...
My latest eBay purchase: [ATTACH] L AVREL VERVS AVG ARMENIACVS - Laureate head of Lucius Verus right TR P IIII IMP II COS II S C - Victory...
In the mail today: [ATTACH] IMP CAES M AVREL ANTONINVS AVG P M - Bare headed bust of Marcus Aurelius right, with light drapery on his left...
A couple of hours ago during lunchbreak on this sunny day I took the bike to visit my very first ever floor auction and this is what I took home...
I think about getting this Trajan Sestertius. [ATTACH] The seller confesses "slightly smoothed fields", but doesn´t it look like that some...
I admire the die studies A.M Woodward has done on the die combinations of the Sestertii of Pertinax and Didius Julianus (sadly he did not manage...
Today I filled another missing spot in my Sestertius collection (five more to go now...). Sestertii of Herennius Etruscus never ever come in the...
On September 16, 2016 Paul Francis Jacquier´s auction 41 offered a stunning 450 high quality coins of Postumus, Laelianus, Marius, and the Tetrici...
I just opened the envelope to look at my latest eBay-purchase and I found this: On the seller´s pictures it looked just like an average, worn and...
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