That's a terrific portrait and reverse!! Congrats Mat!!! Mine has her looking a bit stern (and mean LOL) and with Pudicitia seated. [ATTACH]...
Cool coins @Pickin and Grinin !! Just enjoy the adventure!! All ancient coins have so much to tell us ...and discovering just what that is is...
Love the silver @Sallent Terrific posts everyone!! Another example of a 'bottle cap' type of Seleukos IV, 187-175 BC: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Wonderful posts everyone!!! Obviously, y'all have been VERY GOOD!! Well, 'Saturnalia' seems to run from the 17th to the 23rd ....so perhaps my...
I LOVE that Sabina denarius!!! Terrific reverse, wonderful centering and overall eye-appeal...and the wear and toning are 'just right' !!!! A...
WOW !! What a cool coin!! I hope you can nail down an attribution.....
My Marius is not the best but would probably make the lower end of my top 10 of later Roman Imperials; Antoninianus, Trier---Felicitas holding...
Now that I compare it to acsearch...I have a ton of doubt about genuineness....let alone smoothing and tooling....
I seem to be noticing far more examples of someone 'smoothing' the fields and then get a bit carried away to 'tooling'. Perhaps that's because I...
@zumbly has a great collection of the 12 Like most of us who wanted at least one portrait each of the 12 Caesars, I have a mixture of silver and...
It does seem a bit unusually/perfectly round. What's the weight and size ? Although I see nothing else to make me wary.....but I seem to be wrong...
LOVE that portrait!!! That would definitely be one of my top three!!!
A great reverse and a lots of eye-appeal .....I like it a lot!!!
Two terrific coins @Sallent !!! We seem to have the same vices: I smoke 'Black and Mild' Pipe tobacco cigars, love coins and eat fish;):D I'm...
I still can't decide which is my favorite, but I'll go out on a limb and agree with your #1 listing and with Roman Collector----Caligula and the...
WOW!!! Simply gorgeous! I note that the 'Bronze' of Augustus seems to be listed a a 'Dupondius' on acsearch...and way out of my price range LOL...
I love the posts!!! If only I could buy everything I'm interested in LOL
That's a terrific top 10!! I love the variety and the unusual aspects of each one. Besides my understandable 'LOVE' of gold and silver, I really...
I think the centering and overall eye-appeal, despite the 'honest wear' make it a definite keeper!! I really like it a LOT!!!
Wonderful posts everyone!! I'm 'watching' a quinarius of Galba at the moment, but I think it may be a bit 'pricey' for my prevailing January budget:(
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