I just managed to complete a 12 Caesars portrait SESTERTIUS collection (including a provincial bronze of Otho). [ATTACH]
I would guess about 5.000 pieces and 200 hours, mostly research, design, and the hunt for certain parts. You must be right but one-piece-columns...
The largest Basilica on the Forum Romanum was started by Julius Caesar in 54 BC and inaugurated by Augustus in 12 BC. Not much of it is left...
Thanks, Al :). The story of Hostilian´s sister was obviously "pulled out of the hat" by some Renaissance hobby historian. It has been...
[ATTACH] IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG - Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind / P M TR P V COS II P P S C - Gordian III, in...
I think it is most likely that Hostilian was raised to the purple by the Roman Senate who had Herennius Etruscus consecrated as soon as the older...
Relative production numbers can best be estimated by the number of dies known to have been be used to strike a type. The most famous ancient...
Your coin (RIC II 562; BMCRE 929; Sear 3230; Woytek 245c) is most likely genuine, as it looks like an obverse die match to the specimen in the...
Neat! I always wondered why the coins of the Flavians and Severans seem to show a tetrastyle (showing four columns) and those of Nero a hexastyle...
The only ancient image of a Vesta Temple I ever owned was on a cast Sestertius of Trebonianus Gallus that I no longer have. So here is the...
At least Otho did strike roman-style middle bronzes with latin legends in Antioch (like the one included in my tray), but the Sestertius-sized...
Sorry for the VERY late reply, but I just noticed that the second of the ANS specimens you mentioned (supposed to be from the Rome mint, but...
My heaviest Sestertius is a Nerva: [ATTACH] IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS III P P - laureate head of Nerva right FORTVNA AVGVST S C - Fortuna...
More big bronzes of the Thracian´s family: Maximinus with what I find is his most iconic reverse type, Maximus Caesar as Princeps Iuventutis,...
Your research is so awesome RC that I do not have much to add except my Sestertius of this type (pictures and writeup by David R. Sear): [ATTACH]...
Here is yet another reference: Banti (I Grandi Bronzi Imperiali, vol III-3) Nr. 210. Banti found 6 specimens of this type in the major public and...
That would have made sense, but it seems not to have been the case: Amandry in 1986 listed 49 specimens of my variety with the Julius Caesar...
Last week I visited the bank safe and managed to assemble an up-to-date group photo of my Sestertius portrait gallery: [ATTACH] Here are the...
I just bought a Sestertius of Julia Maesa on Ebay that features what I find is a very nice portrait of this empress plus a rounder flan than my...
Hey Donna, I started like you with my first Sestertius five years ago, promising myself to never spend more than 100 USD on a coin and limiting...
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