Do you think that the anepigraphic types with Hadrian stomping on a crocodile also belong to the travel series? This was discussed in an earlier...
Interesting thread.. lovely antiquities @DonnaML. My contribution to your post is one of my favorite pieces: Bronze statuette of Harpocrates,...
Thanks so much for the kind words! It means a lot to me!
Missed this thread! Love seeing everyone's sestertii collections, some really nice coins posted. I started collecting sestertii this year:...
I've always been fond of this Nomos ΘOYPIΩN and its portrait of Athena: [ATTACH] Thourioi, Lucania AR Nomos (20mm, 7.85g) c. 350-330 BCE O: Head...
Nice thread & coin! My most recent purchase has a bunch of different trumpets: some straight, some curved, as well as possibly a carnyx(?) at 12h....
@svessien such a handsome quadrigatus. What a beauty!
This Geta sestertius is my current favorite. It was likely struck very late in 211 in anticipation of the Vota Publica of 212, so right around the...
Here's something a little different: a dagger that was originally made as a spear head! [ATTACH] An ancient European Bronze Age reworked dagger,...
Bump for your thread! Seems it got buried. I won this sestertius the other day that has at least five spears on the reverse! I also think there...
Wow @ancientone that is a crazy vibrant emerald green! I think it's very beautiful. One of the things I love about bronze coins are the variety of...
Nice portrait of Verus; and what a chunky sestertius at over 30 grams! Great addition.
I posted a thread about this coin recently, but Geta's beard on this sestertius is my favorite piece of imperial propaganda in my little...
Thank you @curtislclay, You are simply the best!
[MEDIA] Well, that's no ordinary rabbit. That's the most foul, cruel and bad tempered rodent you've ever set eyes on!
Another recent purchase of mine: Hadrian is depicted on this sestertius in a wonderfully artistic and classical style, with an excellent strike...
Nice coins of Geta everyone. @Al Kowsky Thanks for the recommendation, I'll seek it out. (also I probably should've said I enjoy reading any and...
An additional point regarding the vota publica question, Susann Lusnia briefly mentions the type in her 1995 work: Julia Domna's Coinage and...
I am happy to have struck a major coin off my bucket list much sooner than I thought I would. [ATTACH] Geta Æ sestertius. Rome, late 211 AD. P...
Is it plausible that two million aureii were given out to the Roman populace / the praetorian guard? (each gold coin, presumably an aureus, was...
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