I believe you are right. I can't recall that Trajan struck any other types with a pacing horse. I wouldn't call this sestertius extremely rare,...
Julia Domna: that Concordia rev. (CONCORDIA - AVGG) is properly of Plautilla, e.g. BMC pl. 38.4. Ancient counterfeits often combined obverses and...
@Ed Snible Ed, I'm happy to say that according to Bastien, Trésor de Beaurains, no. 218, the Constantius I 10-aureus piece, liberation of London,...
Caracalla denarius, Victory in quadriga: another from same dies was in Ball VI, Feb. 1932, lot 1885. A third spec., but from different dies, is...
I agree with @Roman Collector that its size should make this coin a sestertius rather than a middle bronze. However the coin has a somewhat funny...
Blake, Bust type should decide between those two or three possibilities: LIBERALITAS AVGVSTI II or III: portrait unbearded, bust seen from back....
Rarity is one main criterion. I know the following types, in roughly chronological order. Obv. legend always IVLIA AVGVSTA. HILARITAS stg. l.,...
That one looks to be TR P XVIII not XX, and with Cerberus. The two I meant were Dionysos, eBay, 26 May 2014 and Besancon Num., Oct. 2015.
Donna, Just to keep your record accurate: the date on your final denarius of Caracalla appears to be TR P XIIII = 211 not TR P XIII = 210....
@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix The TR P XX antoninianus with Serapis seated, no Cerberus, is rare, but does exist. Vienna has two specimens, quite...
Your quote about knowledge reminds me of Eckhel, a hundred years earlier: "All human research has in common that we are ignorant of more matters...
Dinsdale's mention of the variant with stars may just go back to the Vierordt middle bronze as reported by Mattingly in RIC and BMC. If he knows...
Donna, Another TEMPOR FELIC sestertius with stars above the twins, coupled in this case with an obv. portrait wearing stephane, was sold this...
Martin, Of course I collect the SEVER IMP VIII denarii too, and now have 21 examples in my new collection, including a couple of die duplicates....
Yes, Numista illustrates the BM specimen of this As, one of the 3 that Bland recorded. The RIC numbers are 328a for the sestertius, 328b for the...
Göbl Aurelian 84m catalogues as regular 4 such mules with A in left field like yours, plus 6 similar coins without the A in field. Apparently lots...
FELICIT TEMPOR is a scarce type on asses: Bland found only three specimens in his visits to the major public collections, namely in BM, Vienna,...
Unless I am mistaken, the French word "coin" in numismatic contexts means "die" not "mint", so the literal translation is "flower of the die".
I would agree with RPC's original attribution of the Claudius sestertii from this obv. die: probably provincial mint in Thrace, not Rome. It is a...
Another restored Claudius sestertius from the same dies as your acsearch link: RPC II 522, in Oxford, ex my collection, ex Vecchi II, 1984, lot 645.
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