Oh yes! The NOSE !!! :-)
If Augustus´ Sestertii were cheaper, we all would´t have, I guess :p
I absolutely love the look of pure yellow Orichalcum. For whatever reason, I have not seen any really brassy looking coins cast struck before the...
I have one of those, too: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
These are some of them :-) : [ATTACH]
... it can be quite addictive because it makes everything possible that was not possible to build with Lego when we were young. It is the place...
It was, but the during the Middle Ages the Christians turned it into a church and decided that as such it only "needed" one tower :-(. I actually...
After posting my Porta Nigra, here is the man who ordered it - nothing spectacular, but perfect for me: a clean, round, cheap but handsome and...
He is alive and well and I just sent a box of my Sestertii to him for evaluation :-)
Here is my LEGO try on the Porta Nigra, the largest extant Roman city gate north of the Alps, ordered by Marcus Aurelius to guard the northern...
I have these two Saloninas: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] CORNELIA SALONINA AVG / PUDICITIA S C Sestertius, Rome ca. 262 28 mm, 11,66 gr RIC: -, C: -,...
Gordian Senior: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
That is about the best Macrinus I have ever seen. Stunning.
Here are my Macrinus and Diadumenianus bronzes (As and Sestertius): [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thanks for the good advice, Eduard :). But once you have the forgery "in hand", it tends to be "too late", I fear. I promised myself to take more...
My seller and his experts (no comment) still declare my coin genuine, but I sent it back today and he agreed to show it to further experts in...
https://www.kuenker.de/de/archiv/stueck/140208 Honestly I had hoped for something like that as well. But with the third coin being sold in the...
Thanks for the hint, Nemo! That really opened my eyes and will make me question the authenticity of some other of my rarer Sestertii :-(...
While I am waiting for responses from the dealers, here are some profile pictures of my coin: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I am no expert. Is there...
Nice Denarius! I have Vesta on a Dupondius of hers: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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