At the beginning of this month I had purchased some roman republics that caught my eye. It was an overseas purchase so they finally arrived yesterday. Both have faults but considering how cheap they were, I couldnt pass them up adding them to my collection. Plus the Q. titus is my first pegasus. It also has some nice rainbow toning in hand. Coins looks worse then they are, my 5x loupe had developed a scratch so I had to use my 10x Petillius Capitolinus (43 B.C.) AR Denarius O: CAPITOLINVS, Bare head of bearded Jupiter right. R: PETILLIVS, The Capitoline Temple of Jupiter: richly decorated hexastyle façade with ornamented pediment and garlands hanging within three openings; [PE]TILLIVS in exergue. Rome 3.5g 20mm Crawford 487/1, Sydenham 1149 Q TITIUS (90 B.C.) AR Denarius O: Head of Bacchus or Liber right, wreathed with ivy. R: Pegasus right, Q•TITI on tablet below. Rome 4g 19mm Syd. 692, Crawford 341/2
I nearly bought the Petillius Capitolinus. Coins with architectural designs seem to catch the eye. Good purchases. Congrats. :thumb::thumb:
I like those coins. I feel much safer bottom feeding these days, what with all the talk of forgeries and tooling around here.