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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7886004, member: 91461&quot;]As always, thanks for sharing your exquisite taste<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie16" alt=":artist:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Stunning grouping of coins<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />... but from [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER] the GREAT, what else could we expect<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Where to start...</p><p>Wonderful Italia<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie60" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Though I&#039;m a long time admirer and collector of the Hadrian travel series, I&#039;m still a very limited owner of coins from the Hadrian travel series myself:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1360323[/ATTACH]</p><p>HADRIAN</p><p>117-138 AD. AR Denarius (19mm, 2.77gm). Struck 134-138 AD. Head right / Egypt reclining against basket left, holding sistrum, ibis at feet. RIC II 297; RSC 99.</p><p>Ex-Savoca</p><p>&quot;This coin commemorates Hadrian&#039;s visit to Egypt in 130-131 AD. It was while Hadrian was on tour in Egypt that his favorite, Antinoüs, &quot;mysteriously&quot; drowned in the Nile. So great was the emperor&#039;s grief that he commanded a series of religious rituals to be performed in the young man&#039;s honor, and, on the site where the body was recovered, Hadrian ordered the construction of a city called Antinöopolis in honor of the young man.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>And my best portrait of the most traveled Roman emperor... in leisure that is:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1360322[/ATTACH]</p><p>HADRIAN (117-138). Denarius. Rome.</p><p>Obv: HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS.</p><p>Laureate bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder.</p><p>Rev: COS III.</p><p>Roma seated right on cuirass and shield, holding spear and parazonium; globe in exergue.</p><p>RIC 163.</p><p>Condition: Near extremely fine.</p><p>Weight: 2.86 g.</p><p>Diameter: 18 mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe not A fallen horseman, I&#039;ve a Constantius II of pretty remarkable craftsmanship and pedigree;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1360325[/ATTACH]</p><p>Constans AD 337-350. 20mm., 5,3 g. 6h; Antioch Follis Æ D N CONSTANS P F AVG, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust left, holding globe in right hand / FEL TEMP REPARATIO, helmeted soldier, spear in left hand, advancing right, head turned to left. With his right hand he is leading a small bare-headed figure from a hut beneath a tree with single figs at the end of the branches. The spear points downwards, between the soldier&#039;s legs. ANΓ in exergue. good very fine RIC VIII Antioch 126; Sear 18700. Ex: JAZ Numismatics. Saturnalia 2020 gift from [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>And you&#039;ve got me as to the tag and house of that well patinated Galerius, and its a doozy as well<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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