Nice pickup! ;)
I would have but I’m not really familiar with that website and I have trouble finding things when I am not familiar with the site. I’ve tried in...
What is the grade on that one you sold? I paid $230 for my Lucilla and apparently mine is one of the rarer (scarce) varieties.
Yeah for sure that’s a beautiful antoninianus. :) I just stick with denarii because that’s what I collect and my goal is to collect 1 denarius of...
Does anyone happen to know if that brownish/reddish color on my coin is toning or is it the copper from the constant debasement finally showing in...
Great coins! Thanks for sharing :) I read somewhere that Tyrian Purple dye sold for 150,000 denarii per pound. Which also happened to be the...
Wow! Are those all yours Bing?
But what about the fact that he married a Vestal Virgin (Julia Aquilia Severa)? That is a big No-No when it comes to the ancient Roman religion....
Thanks :). I agree I love coins that have multiple historical figures on them. Kind of like my Faustina Jr. denarius with Commodus on it. Two...
Nice!!
Thats kind of funny because he wasn’t Pius AT ALL. xD His reign was plagued by sex scandals and all kinds of impious behaviors. In fact he...
Sorry for so many posts recently. I got alot of things I wanted to share. ^_^ This is the 3rd denarius that I won at last night’s auction. I...
Not gonna lie I just copied what the HA description said and they said 222. xD [ATTACH]
I’m actually not sure. I checked the COA and (unlike the US Mint does) the Royal Mint didn’t put any sort of weight on it or anywhere that I can...
Apparently yesterday was my lucky day because I won not one, not two, but three denarii at auction when normally I consider it a good day if I win...
I’ve been going through my safe and trying to organize my coins so I could free up some space and I came across this coin that I got from my...
Actually Caligula depleted the treasury far worse than Marcus Aurelius. Tiberius left him a vast fortune of 625 million denarii and Caligula...
I know what VOTA PUBLICA means in a literal sense. I was asking what it meant for the occasion of the coin. Because obviously Lucilla wasn’t...
Imagine if Germanicus had succeeded Tiberius instead of Caligula! I think that is the biggest misfortune Rome ever faced. One ancient historian...
Thanks! Lol that’s actually my intention but I can’t think of any other members of the immediate family of Marcus Aurelius. I have Lucilla’s...
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