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Valued Member
United States
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Walked into lLCS and this caught my eye. I blew out my coin buying budget for awhile but, I think it was well worth it. Need to work on photography skills. RIC II 637 32mm / 24.39g.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Congrats!
That's a real beauty. Gorgeous patina too.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Small wonder you wanted to share it with us. - It's a nice coin.  |
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 Australia
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It is not often that you can pick up a 2000 year old coin, and then go to a specific archaeological site, and say " This coin commemorates that thing being built". You can do that with modern coins, all the time. Ancient coins? Not so much. Note: please don't actually do that with this coin by trying to take this coin to Italy. Italy takes a very dim view of tourists who try to smuggle ancient coins out of the country, and the border officials won't believe you if you try to explain to them that it was you who brought it into the country in the first place. So it's something that you can (theoretically) do, but not something you should do, unless you intend on leaving the coin behind when you return. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Topic StarterUnited States
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I definitely do not plan on taking it out of country. I will be in Europe this summer and hope to bring back a coin or two, ancient or possibly more contemporary. I have been on the hunt for several months for a Trajan denarius. After getting outbid on several and not finding anything to my liking on some of the fixed priced websites, I purchased a Trajan As locally. Was not planning on picking up anymore non denarius Trajan coins however, could not pass on the sestertius. While not as nice as previously posted coin all legends are legible. Trajan AE AS RIC 434 Rome 101AD   Edited by Canefan
03/13/2023 9:40 pm
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Pillar of the Community
 Australia
863 Posts |
Fantastic coins, thanks for sharing!
The Ox moves slowly, but the Earth is patient.
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Valued Member
United States
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Truly a splendid coin, Canefan. Excellent portrait...sharp detail on a large flan. Easy to see the inspiration to "blow out" the budget! The patina is really attractive. Always fascinating to see how the surface of a coin is effected through the centuries. Here is a Trajan dupondius in my collection. Blue-green mottling obscures (but does not detract from) the marvelous portrait and details.  "I warn you, gentlemen, I'm not to be trifled with. To pull the tail of a lion is to open the mouth of trouble and reveal the teeth of revenge biting the tongue of deceit!" --- Duke d'Escargot
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Topic StarterUnited States
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Circusmax120, what a great portrait and coin! Thanks for sharing.
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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@canefan...What a beautiful example! Lovely patina and that "long" legend all on flan! Sweet coin! I Don't have any Imperial bronzes of the Spaniard but do have this imo nice portrait on a provincial.. Lydia. Thyateira. Trajan. 98-117 AD. AE 25mm (9.14 gm). Obv.: ΑΥ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΝ CΕ ΓΕΡ ΔΑΚΙ , laureate head right. Rev.: ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ; Athena in long chiton standing facing, head left, holding patera in her extended right hand, resting with left on shield placed on ground beside her, behind which upright spear. RPC III 1823. VF.  |
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Topic StarterUnited States
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Palouche, very nice portrait indeed. Would be proud to have that in my collection.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
553 Posts |
A lot of smoothing and looks like some tooling; which is not unusual for these large bronzes
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Posted 03/13/2023 01:43 am
