My recent bidding frenzy....

Doug's examples are the types I would have preferred---Terrific eye appeal!!!

I hesitated on a higher grade wth other sellers on e-Bay for precisely the reasons Doug mentioned---although they all looked legit, if a bit ridiculously priced, both high and low....so I chose to deal with a known seller instead of the others I never dealt with before or recall any of you mentioning as a trusted source: one mentioned he found a terrific denarius (Doug's first example) from a metal detector in BULGARIA....

Great info Doug, and I'm relieved you believe it is genuine ....I'm starting to have nightmares about buying fakes LOL

 

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I guess I will post one more purchase on this thread----sort of somewhere between 'pretty' and 'ugly'.

Augustus 27 BC-14 AD; Dated RY 27=5/4 BC
Antioch, Seleucia & Pieria; Ref: RPC 1 4251
Bronze, 22 mm, 10.79 grams

OBV: Laureate head of Augustus right, inscription (clockwise from 1 o'clock)
KAISARI (SEBAST) --letters in parentheses off the flan.
REV: Legend in 5 lines, within archieratic wreath: ARXIE / RATIKON / ANTIO / XEIS / ZK (date).

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/roman-imper...f32ed19&pid=100005&rk=5&rkt=6&sd=111782416628


If I 'pasted' this link correctly, the 'Bulgarian' Pertinax coin offer should appear...It is either a very good fake (to me at least) or a terrific bargain for the type....

 

I would avoid it. The style is not right IMO.

 

An Ops from Pertinax is not something you usually come across. It has both scarce emperor appeal AND very scarce reverse deity appeal.
Congratulations!

 

Cool Boar ever.
Mikey

 

Ops is one of the more commonly seen reverses from Pertinax from Rome or Alexandria and the only way to get Ops using the word other than some very scarce bronzes of Antoninus Pius. There is a Trajan type some consider to be Ops but the legend does not name her. We have a strange situation here where the most common way to get a reverse type is the rare emperor and the more common of the mints is the rare branch mint. You might find a Pius sestertius for less money but it will probably be the anepigraphic Ops type with only SC on the reverse or the desirable OPI AVG version corroded/worn so it is hard to read.

 

Here's Ops from Antoninus Pius, arguably one of his scarcest denarius reverses. Note the short legend OPI AVG:

 

Wonderful example seth....