COS V, head left: [ATTACH] Vespasian Æ Dupondius (74 A.D.) Rome Mint IMP CAES VESP AVG P M T P COS V CENS, radiate head left / FELICITAS...
A double-struck Greek AE of some sort - Zeus nodding vigorously obverse? It came in a lot with a couple of respectable Roman Imperial asses:...
Thank you RC - I appreciate the help! :)
Thank you for your help with this, RC. But I'm still a little confused; my coin has an AETERNITAS reverse legend, so it cannot be 1193 or 1192,...
Another great FF, @Roman Collector As always, these send me back to my collection to see what I'm going to learn from your post. I have managed...
This is supposedly a female "Janiform head" from Rhegium: [ATTACH] Rhegium, Bruttium Æ 25 Pentonkion (c. 215-150 B.C.) Janiform female...
Your first sestertius? O, you are in trouble now. They are addictive. At least for me. That is really nice - not dubious at all. I'll tell...
Very interesting write-up @red_spork - and I find the coin quite attractive despite a few issues. Everything I know about the corn-ear mintmark I...
A dancing hippo! Somebody stop me...goats from Macedon: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [IMG] I did not have a pig handy, so if anybody wants...
Am I obsessed with this thread? I've never really been much of a dancer (as Paul sings in "Helter Skelter") but I just keep coming back to the...
Wow, that is a spectacular green monster. I have three of these, for some reason (lack of eBay discipline) but not one nearly as nice as yours:...
Hoo ha! If I'd seen that lot I would've tried to out-bid you! :) Seriously, I love to buy material like this at prices like you paid....
Trebonianus Gallus with Pietas grooving with a tambourine - obviously the authorities missed this in their descriptions. I put a call into RIC ;)...
Very nice grouping, @Deacon Ray - I have that Antoninus Pius, though mine is not as pretty as yours. In fact it might be a "limes" issue - it is...
Thank you for that information, @DonnaML - lacking Emmett in my library, this is very helpful. :)
Hadrian square-dancing with Roma? Dos-i-do? [ATTACH] Hadrian Æ Sestertius (133-135 A.D.) Rome Mint [HADRI]ANVS AVG...
If you have very low standards, you can find a Bolskan warrior for under $2 on eBay - although I am not sure it is worth that! [ATTACH] Spain,...
My local dealer has a small box of unidentified Greek and Roman AEs, $9.95 each. They are pretty cruddy, but I couldn't resist this one - I have...
Some great looking coins in this thread. Janus on Imperial Roman coins is not a common deity, so here's a sestertius of Commodus that is...
Terrific coins and write-up @DonnaML - and everybody else too. As an eBay scrounger, I have found that earlier Roman Egypt material is really...
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