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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7981332, member: 99456"]Congrats on the Argenteus - Ken Dorney wins the photo competition from my point of view. I like this mindset - I am now considering all the coins I can buy with the money I will save by not purchasing an Eid Mar denarius. I don't have a Diocletian - here's a Galerius.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1385033[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Galerius, as Caesar, </b>AD 293-305, AR Argenteus, Rome mint, struck circa AD 294</p><p><b>Obv: </b>MAXIMIANUS CAES, laureate head right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>VIRTVS MILITVM, Diocletian, Maximian, Constantius Chlorus, and Galerius, draped, sacrificing over tripod; behind, gate in a six-turreted enclosure</p><p><b>Ref: </b>RIC VI <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.rom.29b" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.rom.29b" rel="nofollow">29b</a> (R2)</p><p><br /></p><p>I will add another vote to leave the spots alone - more likely to harm a nice looking coin that to make it better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7981332, member: 99456"]Congrats on the Argenteus - Ken Dorney wins the photo competition from my point of view. I like this mindset - I am now considering all the coins I can buy with the money I will save by not purchasing an Eid Mar denarius. I don't have a Diocletian - here's a Galerius. [ATTACH=full]1385033[/ATTACH] [B]Galerius, as Caesar, [/B]AD 293-305, AR Argenteus, Rome mint, struck circa AD 294 [B]Obv: [/B]MAXIMIANUS CAES, laureate head right [B]Rev: [/B]VIRTVS MILITVM, Diocletian, Maximian, Constantius Chlorus, and Galerius, draped, sacrificing over tripod; behind, gate in a six-turreted enclosure [B]Ref: [/B]RIC VI [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.6.rom.29b']29b[/URL] (R2) I will add another vote to leave the spots alone - more likely to harm a nice looking coin that to make it better.[/QUOTE]
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