I do! It’s a very interesting article about the debasement of the denarius. They did testing by buying well circulated coins from different...
Hey sorry I missed your post. I found this interesting article regarding payment of Roman legionaries. Apparently they took home roughly 15-20...
But it's clearly labelled as a fake. It even says right on the description that it was minted in: "china".
Nah it looks correctly graded to me. You might even end up getting a worse grade like PF63RB or maybe even BN if the grader is having a bad day.
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I blame Marcus Licinius Crassus!
Congrats! I got my first Augustus last week too :) This one was meant to commemorate the Battle of Actium and defeat of Marc Antony and the...
The way the letters are kind of dissolved makes me wonder if someone did an acid test on it.
Thanks mate :) No no. No cracking out for me xD I find that slabs do a wonderful job of letting me stack my coins in my safe in a way that...
Amazing coins! Yeah they’re definitely not cheap in most cases. This denarius cost me more than any other denarius of mine but I knew I’d get to...
Ehhh..well the thing is is that my collection is mostly focused on the Emperor's themselves and the portrait of the Emperor is the most important...
Nice! Here is a better picture of the exergue on a lightweight solidus so people can see the difference easier. [ATTACH]
Thanks :) Well that’s a bummer considering my collection ends at Severus Alexander. Oh well at least I get 1 aniepigraphic Emperor.
Does anyone happen to know if any other Emperors minted aniepigraphic coins without the writing on the obverse? Or is it just an Augustus thing?
Nope you just said the same thing I did in a different way. I said someone would have to work for over a day for one of these denarii. You said...
So I just read that during the time this coin was minted the pay of a legionary had been doubled to 225 denarii. Which means that one Augustus...
Yeah that’s very true. I was surprised at how expensive Augustus’s denarii are. I always imagined that as an Emperor who reigned a long time and...
Ahh good ol’ Agrippa! I like to call him the “Fist of Augustus”. The bond and trust between the two really makes you appreciate & respect...
Thanks! It is definitely now one of my favorite denarii. XD
Absolutely! I imagine Augustus must have been a very confident man in the sense of not feeling a need to identify or praise himself on his own...
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