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The Cleo portraits are ugly and in bronze, wouldn't you rather have a Ptolemy with her female features?
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Pillar of the Community
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 Not sure which issue(s) you mean. Link? |
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Later issues of the coin I posted has been hypothesized to be Ptolemy I with Cleopatra's female features.
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Pillar of the Community
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Oh yeah, seems like I read about that somewhere. But no, I want a bronze portrait coin. OK OK, I'll take both.
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Nothing special (or crazy huge), but here are some of my larger bronzes: Ptolemy VI Philometor and Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (30 mm, 22.28 gr)  Hadrian sestertius (34 mm)  Lucilla sestertius (32-ish mm?)  Jovian AE1 (28 mm, very large for a late Roman bronze)  Justinian I follis (32 mm)  I also recently got a Gordian III sestertius but still need to take my own photos of it, which I will do soon. Edited by VisigothKing
08/23/2013 02:00 am
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Pillar of the Community
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This was a challenge of sorts I looked for one from each Century 1st Century Claudius AE Sestertius 25.90 grams 36mm Sear 1854 Rome AD42   2nd Century Commodus AE Sestertius 22.68 grams 30-31mm Sear 5822 Rome AD183   3rd Century Maximinus AE Sestertius 21.16 grams 30-31mm Sear 8332 Rome AD236-8 Quite the dashing fellow   Lastly my GIANT Ptolemy AE 9.35000000 grams 19.55555555mm   Looks like Swiss chocolate |
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VK-- nice group! That Jovian is massive for a LRB.
FR-- I was wondering when you were going to treat us to a show. They're all fabulous but I especially love that Ptolemy!
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08/23/2013 12:43 pm
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The Ptolemy was just for you. I rather like it though so it won't be going anywhere anytime soon. I think I may have a 'blue' wax around somewhere ......
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Unfortunately I dont own beautiful hockeyspucks, but herby I'm posting my best so far  Issuer : Severus Alexander Date Ruled : AD 222-235 Metal : Bronze Denomination : Sestertius Struck / Cast : struck Date Struck : AD 232 Diameter : 31 mm Weight : 15.82 g   |
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I'm loving this thread and hope to add more of my own soon. Ski-- more nice coins. Salus reverses are always interesting. Dutch-- I like that portrait. Very attractive reverse too.
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Nero AE Sestertius  65 AD Rome NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P Laureate bust right S | C Roma with parazonium and victory, seated left ROMA in exergue 34mm 26.53g RIC 273 Extra: No Tooling or Smoothing, much better surfaces in hand Struck the year Nero killed his pregnant wife in a violent fit of rage, which was also the year after the great fire of Rome. |
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Nice Nero! I'm keeping an eye out for just the right one. Not sure what type I like best, and what I like best may be a moot point because of high prices.
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The 'victory' Asses are reasonable and plentiful TIF. For 200 clams you might get a VF/EF portrait of a sneering Nero
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Yeah, FR-- in the scheme of things that coin is not prohibitively expensive. It's just that there are so many other things I like better. Just seems like I should have a sneering Nero, though. And is it just me or does everyone else look at Sneering Nero and think John Belushi in Animal House?   |
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