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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 2843210, member: 80783&quot;]Thank you everybody! </p><p><br /></p><p>It is too bad that no expert seems to have attempted a die study of Balbinus Sestertii yet (and Pupienus and the two first Gordiani, for that matter), like Woodward has done with Pertinax and Didius Julianus´family and Clay´s study on Macrinus (which have all been very useful for me).</p><p><br /></p><p>But taking a closer look at this and comparable pieces of Balbinus I noticed that </p><p>the obverse is too crisp and detailed to be true (otherwise would be the finest Balbinus bronze coin in existence and cost around 50.000 USD) while the reverse figure´s details (fingers on right hand and shoe strings on left food, for example, and I doubt that the personification is supposed to flash his thigh) are mostly the product of a modern artiste´s fantasy. </p><p><br /></p><p>So I´ll save for something more original <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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