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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 2360245, member: 44316"]There is good reason to collect FEL TEP REPARATIO types. They are inexpensive. They have good size. If condition is your criterion, they can be found in great shape. Some types have early Christian symbols. There are lots of minor varieties that seem enough different to collect with increasing interest in which ones are more unusual. There are lots of mints with somewhat different details. All this without spending much per coin. Failmezger's book, Roman Bronze Coins: From Paganism to Christianity 294-364 A.D.,goes into great detail about varieties. However, the one-captive type of Thessalonica is much less common. If condition is your criterion, it extremely difficult to find in full EF condition. Doug's first example above is about as nice as I have seen in many years of looking. Take a look at your favorite fixed-price site to see just how uncommon they are. Long ago Mattingly wrote an article, later turned into a pamphlet, on "FEL TEMP REPARATIO."  He failed to include this type, which shows that it does not leap to mind. "Soldier spearing fallen horseman," "galley", "hut", "emperor and two captives", and "phoenix (on rocks or globe)" are all very available. The one captive type of Thessalonica is not. There is one more FEL TEMP REPARATIO type which is even rarer. Who (besides Doug) knows what it is?[/QUOTE]