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Message:: [QUOTE="Eduard, post: 1820567, member: 8959"][ATTACH=full]298835[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]298833[/ATTACH] The last coin I found more than compensated the long drive to Frankfurt.  I was browsing at the table of a foreign dealer, and happened to notice that in addition to spanish and latin colonial which interest me, he also had a tray with selected high quality romans at quite high prices, but also a few trays with more common material, all in high grades but at more affordable prices.From what I saw most of the denarii on these trays were Trajans, Hadrians,  Caracallas, Geta, Severus Alexander, and Gordianus, but there was one coin with quite a different portrait style and which vaguely looked familiar to me. Upon examination I noticed the word HOS in the legend but, I did not make the immediate connection with Hostilianus, since all of his Antoninians that I have seen spell his name as HOSTIL. Since I did not have a catalogue handy, I decided to take a chance anyway, and buy the coin at the requested price. At worst I had a common, but quite appealing coin; at best it was indeed an antoninian of Hostilianus.I was able to ask an acquaintance who was at the show, and he told me he thought it was Hostilian. When i got home i was able to verify that it is indeed an Antoninian of Hostilian.A nice coin with superb detail.[/QUOTE]