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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3123464, member: 19463&quot;]We tend to accept duplicates in our specialties where we might not in a general collection.&nbsp; I collect both ways.&nbsp; My only example of this coin shows a small break P-A not too much larger than that on the OP coin which has a larger spacing over at CA-ES.&nbsp; My tendancy from the outside would be to accept the &quot;whim of the engraver&quot; idea but I have not studied the question at all let alone enough to have an opinion on such a specialist matter.&nbsp;&nbsp; My coin came in 1989 as part of a six coin lot described as fourrees by the then well respected auction house Numismatics Fine Arts.&nbsp; The other five were fourrees but in 1989 fourrees were a specialty interest of mine and it was obvious to me that this one was solid but encrusted with deposits.&nbsp; Soaking in lemon juice removed the deposits. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]795320[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Duplicates?&nbsp; I have a hundred of them by most standards but I consider very few of them to be duplicates.&nbsp; A good example is the&nbsp; Venus from the rear denarius type of Julia Domna.&nbsp; These are about equal in scarcity showing extra drapery falling to the left and to the right of the figure:</p><p>Left</p><p>[ATTACH=full]795325[/ATTACH] </p><p>Right (look for drapery but ignore the palm which goes down on that side)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]795327[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>More scarce by far are Rome mint denarii with drapery dangling on both sides.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]795326[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a lot of variation here on the length and boldness of this drapery.&nbsp; Denarii of the Eastern mint we call &#039;Emesa&#039; are regularly draped on both sides.&nbsp; These four have both drapes and have legend variations ......who cares about that?&nbsp; I do.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]795334[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]795333[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]795332[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]795331[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As with the Vespasian example, we may all differ on the question whether I have shown seven duplicates or seven interesting and different coins.&nbsp; High on my want list is an Alexandria mint denarius with this reverse.&nbsp; I do not have it for Julia but do have the Septimius variety which shows the double drapery.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]795337[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>All these have been denarii.&nbsp; You can research yourself to find out if the differences also come in bronze or gold.&nbsp; If you can see yourself caring about a question like that, you may want to specialize in something like David does Vespasian or I do Septimius Severus.&nbsp; If this strikes you as ridiculous, perhaps your collecting will take a different track.&nbsp; That&#039;s OK, I collect generally too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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