My Salonina tets with humdrum eagle reverse types: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
For all of its tigers and mythological creatures, Gallienus' zoo is a bit heavy on the hooved beasts ... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Bobblehead Maximian! [ATTACH] Maximian, post-abdication, AD 305-306 Roman billon follis, 8.26 g, 25 mm, 1 h. Antioch, AD 305-306. Obv: D N...
I love that "Joe Cool" SECVRITAS on that Valerian!
I love green to black patinas: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here's my latest Nerva denarius, busted out of a slab! [ATTACH] Nerva, AD 96-98. Roman AR denarius, 3.49 g, 17.5 mm, 6 h. Rome, AD 97. Obv: IMP...
Shame on that company! The ad needs to clearly state they are reproductions.
An unusually casual Libertas on this antoninianus of Trebonianus Gallus: [ATTACH] Trebonianus Gallus, AD 251-253. Roman AR antoninianus, 2.82 g,...
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On this day 1951 years ago, June 9, AD 68, Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus called out his famous last words: "Qualis artifex pereo" (What...
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Gorgeous!
[MEDIA] My latest veiled Faustina: [ATTACH] Diva Faustina II, AD 147-175/6. Roman orichalcum sestertius, 27.34 g. Rome, AD 176-810. Obv: DIVAE...
At last I can post one! [ATTACH] Domitian as Caesar, AD 69-81 Roman provincial Æ semis; 6.93 g, 21.1 mm, 1 h Syria, Seleukis and Pieria,...
No, but the thread fell down to page 4 and needed a good bumping.
Well, it's been two days ... going back to "scarce denomination (for its time)." Denarii were scarce in the days of Aurelian. The denomination was...
Nice Othos. I'm still waiting for Domitian to come up.
I concur with @Valentinian 's point that the buyer's commission should be easy to find among the auction house's terms and conditions, but I don't...
The British museum has two coins of this series with the OBSEQVENS spelling, an as ... [ATTACH] ... and a sestertius. [ATTACH]
That's an interesting coin, indeed,! @Marsyas Mike . You can read more about these coins -- as well as about two temples of Fortuna Obsequeas, one...
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