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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7839719, member: 19463&quot;]My favorites of the many, many variations on these coins are the ones with dies numbered in Roman numerals from the Lucius, 90BC, group. Since obverse dies on the anvil lasted longer that the reverse punch dies, the numbers advanced at different rates.&nbsp; Also there is the fact that some Roman numerals are just more interesting than others.&nbsp; This one is my favorite but the coin certainly could be higher grade and better in centering. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1348338[/ATTACH] </p><p>The obverse 77 (LXXVII) uses the old style fifty which looks like a down arrow.&nbsp; The reverse 94 (XCIV) combines two subtractive numbers which your Latin teacher may have told you the Romans did not use (they forgot to tell the Romans).&nbsp; The other interest I find in these coins is the rocking horse pose of the horse which was shown not ever to occur by the early photographer Eadweard Muybridge who was commissioned to settle a bet between horse lovers who disagreed on whether a horse ever had all four feet off the ground when running. They do but only when the four are toward the center of the horse.&nbsp; They never have all four legs stretch out at the same time as shown on the coins.&nbsp; All students of photographic history know his work that went on to include hundreds of people and animals in motion. BTW, he showed that cats do adopt the rocking horse pose but horses do not.&nbsp; Painters quickly adopted the correct Muybridge poses aiding in the dating of paintings before and after the publication of his books (beginning in 1877).&nbsp; People who share the hobbies of coins and photography need one of these. </p><p><img src="https://d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net/?resize_to=width&amp;src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2FMU43taIikMbcBntkiKFsHQ%2Flarger.jpg&amp;width=1200&amp;quality=80" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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