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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2624415, member: 56859&quot;]There are some real lookers in this thread!</p><p><br /></p><p>I only have a few sestertii.&nbsp; This is my favorite, which I stupidly posted in the recent &quot;favorite denarii&quot; thread <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/nerosestertius-rt2-jpg.574861/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Nero</b></p><p>struck in Rome, CE 63</p><p>Orichalcum sestertius, 34 mm, 26.7 gm</p><p>Obv: NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP PP; laureate head right, wearing aegis</p><p>Rev: ANNONA AVGVSTI CERES; Ceres, veiled and draped, seated left, holding corn ears and torch, her feet on stool, facing Annona standing right, holding cornucopia; between them, modius on garlanded altar; in background, stern of ship</p><p>Ref: RIC 98. Cohen 24</p><p><i>Heritage, CICF World and Ancient Coin Signature Auction, Apr 2014. Removed from NGC slab.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>[USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER], your pictures of Hadrian&#039;s villa are fantastic! </p><p><br /></p><p>As for your coin background experimentation, the idea of &quot;rippling water&quot; reflections is interesting.&nbsp; I think it might look better if the obverse and reverse didn&#039;t have the same ripple pattern (make one ripple for the lower part of the composition).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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