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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2858632, member: 84744&quot;]That is an awesome coin! I guess this is the closest we get to the &quot;thrills&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie27" alt=":bored:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> of&nbsp; collecting moderns (looking for those minute varieties).&nbsp; But as Orfew points out, it really is thrilling in our case because of the historical significance of these details!&nbsp; (I make an exception for the 1936 dot Canadian penny and dime. Those are definitely cool.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple, both of which I&#039;ve posted elsewhere recently.&nbsp; The first looks like a boring Genio Populi Romani of Constantius I, but it isn&#039;t because it was struck under the usurper Domitius Domitianus in Alexandria (the eagle is the key feature):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]680129[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is what looks like a boring Virtus Exerciti of Magnus Maximus... except it is a unique type for him, struck in Constantinople during the brief period when Theodosius was favourably disposed towards him:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]680130[/ATTACH] </p><p>Both of the above are rather rare.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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