Even though it could be improved detail- and shape-wise, I think this Sestertius of Trajan Decius´ wife is above average in quality for a mid...
Here is my second catch from the new cgb.fr fixed price catalogue: This Sestertius does not only fit my love for unpatinated yellow brass, but...
I started the new year by picking three coins from the new cgb.fr fixed-price catalogue. Here is the first one, a Sestertius struck in...
I must admit that this is a little misleading since this is the one and only Tetradrachm that I ever owned :-). While this does not fit into my...
While I spent 2016 buying dozens of budget Sestertii in order to complete my portrait gallery, I restricted myself this year and tried to buy less...
I posted my Imperial Portrait Gallery here last year (https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-portrait-gallery.285774/) In the meantime I managed to...
I just realized that that this is already my fourth Gordian III coin despite me trying to own just one portrait of every emperor. Is that ability...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[ATTACH] Severus Alexander tried to contrast himself from Elagabalus´ government and promoted his middle-of-the-road rule not only by honoring...
It was about July, 235. After building a ponton bridge over the Rhine, Maximinus the Thracian led the majority of the Roman field army, maybe...
Hi folks, I bought this rather nice looking coin yesterday: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] ... and I was very happy, until I found this specimen (sold...
I must excuse myself for showing another Nemausus Crocodile here, and one that is not on par with most of the ones usually seen here. It is...
I just took a little break from work and bid on these two bronzes form the collection of an Austrian scientist this morning. Not spectacular, but...
After my Nerva Sestertius has sadly turned out to be a fake, I am not sure if and how I shall replace it. I must say that I am not a Nerva...
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