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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1775473, member: 19463&quot;]Rather than showing five coins of Septimius Severus and being deafened by the yawning of most of you and rather than showing my favorite coin (the SS) again, I&#039;ll show five coins representing five different specialty collections that I have and continue to enjoy even though some of them don&#039;t get added to very often since I have retired to fixed income.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The collections are:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Eastern denarii of Septimius Severus:</p><p>Alexandria mint Venus reverse</p><p>[ATTACH=full]283074[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Septimius Severus Legionary denarii:</p><p>LEG XXII PRI (the rarest Rome mint one - best of my four worst in existence but someone has to love them)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]283075[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Technical oddities:</p><p>Magnentius flip over double strike with first strike being a brockage</p><p>[ATTACH=full]283076[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Tiny Treasures (Greek silver - obol or under):</p><p>Syracuse 5th century BC 0.05g AR hexas&nbsp; (worst known?)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]283077[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Fourrees:</p><p>Arados, Phoenicia tetradrachm year OE 185 BC - I know this even though mine has lost the reverse exergue because there was a higher grade one out there being offered as solid by dealers that should know better from these same dies.&nbsp; Mine was heavier and theirs had a very tiny spot of core showing. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]283078[/ATTACH]</p><p>Since we are limiting to 5 coins I can&#039;t show a few other interests like countermarked coins, Falling Horsemen, Coins of the East, Provincials with centration pits, eros m/m&#039;ed and probably some specialties I have forgotten.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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