An exceptional example, @Michael Stolt !
Fascinating series of coins, which seem to have been produced by many mints in Moesia Inferior and Thrace in the 2nd and 3rd centuries! And to...
Thank you so much, @Jochen1 , I really appreciate it!
Hi, @Jochen1 , I hope you don't mind me resurrecting this thread, but I am having difficulty finding this exact reverse die in online references....
Smiley Julia Mamaea! [ATTACH]
Wow, @Orfew ! Quite an acquisition for your collection!! Congrats! Plate coin: [IMG] Annia Faustina, 3rd wife of Elagabalus, Augusta, 221 CE....
Could be Commodus, too. https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2305503 [ATTACH]
I should have considered tooling. By comparing the shapes of the devices to my worn examples, I was falsely reassured by the apparent die-match....
Looks fine. Here are some of mine.
Then there's lot 417. Fortunately, nobody got suckered. [ATTACH]
This is the most worn but still identifiable coin in my collection. The ID is made by recognizing the portrait as belonging to Julia Domna and...
Next theme?
Just a LITTLE tooled ... [ATTACH]
Nice addition to your collection! Salus/Hygieia is one of my favorite deities on coins. Here's my favorite sestertius with Salus: [IMG] Maximinus...
I love them all, @Limes ! I like the Domna/Geta one; it's very scarce and desirable. I also really like the Titus and elephant denarius and the...
Here's a serrate coin -- a little one with an elephant head! [IMG] Laodike IV, wife and sister of both Seleucus IV and Antiochus IV. Selucia in...
I have umpteen of Felicitas. Here's one of my favorites: [IMG] Volusian as Augustus, AD 251-253. Roman orichalcum sestertius, 17.26 g, 27.4 mm,...
Fascinating coins, @akeady ! I too have a veiled bust Providentia middle bronze: [ATTACH] You seem to have the sestertius equivalent of my...
That's very interesting, @Orielensis . I'm not sure what would constitute proof of muling vs. low-mintage official issues, but it's a...
Because the book is 46 years old. Using an inflation calculator: £12,000 in 1974 is £113,876.71 today. That would be 148,962.44 US Dollars,...
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