New sestertius from Antoninus Pius (reverse Felicitas Aug.)

[labienus]

Hi,
a sestertius from Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD) in the portrait gallery. Very high relief. I do like Antonius portraits (a mix of majesty and some "sadness" - at least in my view).

[Mark Z]

Do you have a link?

mz

[labienus]

Hi,

I did copy the link to you (see below) as, when I try to do it when posting the text (in the attach section), it goes automatically to my personal computer and not to the already built document (text + photo) in the member's gallery so I'm certainly missing something somewhere ......

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-78509

Regards

[Matt Inglima]

Hi,
a sestertius from Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD) in the portrait gallery. Very high relief. I do like Antonius portraits (a mix of majesty and some "sadness" - at least in my view).

Yes, I agree Antoninus strikes a very emotive profile.  One might say they are very Lincolnesque (or that Lincoln's profile are very Antonine).  At any rate it's a beautiful coin, congratulations.

[Mark Z]

VERY nice!

Do you have the reverse pic handy?

mz

[labienus]

Hello again

see below the reverse attached (still difficulties with my Mac to stitch the photos - went through two softwares without finding out -).

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-78528

Regards

[Potator II]

That's a most nice Pius sestertius, engraving, strike, patina, it has everything

Good catch
JC

[Mark Z]

That is a very nice coin!

Yes, having both sides in the same pic would be great.

mz

[Optimo Principi]

A wonderful example that I imagine looks even better in hand. Congrats!

[Steve E]

I think, the best Antoninus Pius sestertius I've ever seen I love the detail and beautiful patina I hope someday to find one a 1/4 as nice!

Great find!!!!

[Jay GT4]

Wow!  Amazing!

[labienus]

Hi
thanks to everybody for your comments + a special thanks to Kained but able for stitching the 2 faces of the coin (are you on Mac by chance ? It seems that most softwares used for stitching are under Windows).
Back to the coin, yes, it is definitely better in hand.
Have a nice day.

[arizonarobin]

Is Google Picasa available to MAC users? It is free and its collage feature will stitch them together.

[labienus]

Hi and many thanks, Robin

yes it does work. I'm at least able to stitch both sides of a coin but it is not over yet (still have to deal with the macro side - i.e the Constantine aureus -).
I will break through one day ........
Thanks again for the ones who did help me prior to this advance.
Best