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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1775139, member: 19463&quot;]#23 Ordinary but a beautiful type when style is good</p><p>[ATTACH=full]282949[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>#56 Thanks to whoever scratched mine down into something I could afford.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]282950[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>#50 Boring</p><p>[ATTACH=full]282951[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>#83 I would not list this against Berk&#039;s aureus but his titles on the page say he will show the sestertius but went gold in the image. Here you see my lowly denarius.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]282952[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>#88 I don&#039;t have the cippus but the write up makes it seem OK to include any of the series from the celebration of 1000 years. Considering everything, I think the wolf should have been selected.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]282953[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This is pushing it too far but this is a junky single sestertius of the same reverse Berk showed as a high grade double sestertius.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]282954[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>#92 No I do not have the triple portrait but the same C mint produced the same reverse for the three heads separately. I only have two of the three separately but realistically have no hope of ever having the three in one. At least this has the GGG as required.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]282957[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>#98 Common but I don&#039;t have a Constantinople year 12 so I&#039;ll show a Cyzicus 12 (my only 12) with no face.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]282960[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>#99 Yes, there are a million of them as Berk says and, yes, most are worse than mine.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]282961[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>#94 This does not count but at least mine is clear enough that you can read it is John VIII. Berk&#039;s coin is a Constantine XI but partly identifiable by the crude style. It is among the best I&#039;ve seen since the KWNCT is there with very little imagination.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]282962[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>How many I have depends on how liberal you are counting the close ones. If I were working from all stock photos of coins I have ever seen, I&#039;d probably include about half of the Berk 100 in my 100. If I were showing my favorite 100 from my collection, only about half of the ones I showed here would make the 100 list. That is what I like about ancient coins. Each of us can have 100 favorites as long as we have 100 coins or can dream about the day we have 100 coins better than Mr. Berk&#039;s selections.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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