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Your work is amazing @LONGINUS !  I'm happy just being able to turn my computer on without a glitch.

What a fantastic year with such fabulous coins! Hope you have just as great a year in 2024!

I also did not realize there were two varieties of this coin. Mine appears to have the curved inscription. These coins may be common , but to me they are very handsome.

Dupondius of Nero's Macellum on the Caelian Hill in Rome...

Coins of Tiberius...

1. Aureus with Livia seated...

2. Denarius "tribute penny"

3. As with rudder / globe...

4. As with caduceus...

5. As with SC reverse...

Actually , more than think. The word "obsessed" comes to mind.

These are some of my favorite Neros in several denominations....

1. Dynastic issue under Claudius - aureus with Boscoreale toning...

2. Aureus of Nero as a boy, again under Claudius...

3. Aureus of the corpulent Nero that we've all come to love...

4. My favorite sestertius of Nero with DECVRSIO reverse... struck in Lugdunum (also my favorite)

5. Port of Ostia sestertius ( unfortunately I took this photo. This explains why all my photos are from the various dealers).

6. My favorite denarius...

7. Dupondius with Victory holding wreath...

7. Nice looking As with Victory holding globe inscribed SPQR...

8 . Dupondius with mesmerizing portrait and SECVRITAS reverse,....

9. One more sestertius from mint of Rome with Nero addressing troops. Standing next to him is Praetorian prefect - likely Tigellinus...

Several Antoniniani of Elagabalus...

1. Fides Exercitus reverse...

2. Salus of Antoninus Augustus...

3.  Victory with wreath...

 All beautiful examples. I love the wreath on the obverse...

 Constantine -  with camp gate reverse.

 I have a couple of Maxentius folles, but they're the same - reverse of temple with Roma.  CONSERV VRB SVAE - the savior of his city....

I find this coin outstanding.

Very handsome looking coin.

Beautiful photos brought back neat memories. I had great, great grandparents from Formia , down the road from Gaeta. I visited the area many years ago and it was breathtaking. I particularly remember what was thought to be Cicero's tomb near there.

 My blue frog Aes grave from Tuder (Todi)...

More blue azurite on Aes Grave Semis and Triens...

In my opinion,that is the most fantastic, iconic and amazing Roman coin ever struck. It's on my dream list too ,some day. Congratulations!

My one coin of Constantius I , with reverse of Jupiter holding globe on which is perched Victory, crowning him with a wreath...

 Just got this Antoninianus of Caracalla a couple of weeks ago with reverse of Luna riding in a biga of bulls...

 Denarius of Vitellius with SPQR reverse....

Sestertius with PAX reverse....

Got this years ago from a Triton auction. Saw the  sestertius in question listed  but felt it just didn't look right.

 Several folles of Diocletian...

1. reverse of Jupiter , IOVI CONSERVATORI...

2. reverse of Genius... GENIO POPVLI ROMANI....

3. reverse with Jupiter holding globe with Victory on it, eagle below ; IOVI TVTATORI AVG(VSTORVM)....

4. reverse of SALVS....

5. silvered  - with CONCORDIA MILITVM reverse , Jupiter holding up Victory, crowning emperor with wreath....

 Great coin! Would love to see some Etruscan antiquities! Glad you joined.

 My one and only Carinus - like expat's - Aequitas reverse...

Found one Numerian - same as Qcumbor -  with Princeps Iuventutis,,,

4 hours ago, DonnaML said:

Thank you, @Curtisimo. I have been to Europe four times with my son, all since I've been on my own: once to England (London & Bath) in 2002, once to Rome and vicinity in 2008, once to Berlin in 2011, and once to the area encompassing Freiburg, Basel, Strasbourg, & Colmar in 2018. They are all among my fondest memories. It's definitely something to look forward to. Hopefully he won't consider himself too old to travel with me again one of these days, even though he's been by himself to Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and Austria in the last decade, and travel is definitely more difficult for me now than it was 10 or 15 years ago. (On the other hand, he wore me out the most back in 2002; his energy was inexhaustible!) 

A few additional photos from the 2008 trip. The first one is easy, but who can identify the location of the other two? (They're not the same place.)

I  also dug up the cursory receipt for the Trajan's Column and Trevi Fountain engravings, but unfortunately it doesn't provide the dates when they were made. The closest matches from a Google Images search are no older than the early 19th century, but that's not necessarily definitive: from the innumerable engravings and etchings of those locations that differ only in slight details, I suspect that there was a lot of not-so-light plagiarism going on!

Here's something I was able to identify more precisely, also purchased in Rome. It's the 1685 German edition, printed in Frankfurt by Johann David Zunner, of Alain Malleson Mallet's 1683 "Plan et Profil de la Ville de Rome Moderne" (Grundriss der heutigen Stadt Rom). (See https://datos.bne.es/edicion/a6810075.html ). I was charmed by the tiny Colosseum and Trajan's Column, etc., as well as by the way the seven hills and other features were so carefully delineated.

Middle photo reminds me of Pompeii? a caupona or shop?