Thank you again Curtis for a wonderfully interesting and informative response. I was wrong about the die match for the Caracalla - I had mixed it...
Thank you Doug - You are right about the die link - I had it confused with two other examples - I am so pressed for time lately but that is a poor...
Rarity is an odd concept in ancient coins, where, as I have mentioned elsewhere, even collectors of modest means can own coins that are unique....
This is my continuation of the above: All three of these coins were struck at the time that Septimius was campaigning in Britain ca 211AD. The...
Oddly enough the ACSEARCH site lists only three examples of Elagabalus sestertii with a Salus reverse, with 13 different Quadriga types - but...
Curtis - Lat week I posted a sestertius of Septimius Severus on this site with the same reverse as RIC 483(a), and Geta RIC 186. I was unable to...
terrific coins! I have a die match of the Aquila Severa that I should post.
The Forum ancient coin site has an excellent area with many examples of fakes - if I suspect a coin that is the first place I go - more often than...
I agree - there is something "fresh" about a higher grade sestertius with Tiber patina, and many have details that are obscured by even light...
Plotina is on my list of coins I would one day like to have but probably never will - this is a GREAT coin - btw - a history of Plotina would...
Here is an Elagabalus dupondius, ca. 218 AD - RIC 285, 25mm, 12.11 grams. All of Elagabalus' dupondii are quite rare - this was among first of his...
how true is the expression "youth is wasted on the young" - Oscar Wilde?? I am 63 and I sometimes think if only I knew at 18 what I know now - but...
At one time I was worried that slabs would be become common for ancient coins. Thank God it never happened and never will happen. Every now and...
[ Although I hope to finish the post later I would love to hear comments on the first coin above which I was unable to find anywhere else - not on...
Standing Liberty is one of my favorite American coin designs except for the shoes or rather footware - it just doesn't seem to work! .....yeah a...
60 days, not 90 days!
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The reverse of the Geta and Septimius is "VICTORIAE BRITTANICAE." Caracalla is dated "TRP XIIII" (211AD). I would...
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