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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 7888180, member: 83845&quot;]10 excellent coins. I like your FH with the weight standard spelled out. It also has nice style and tone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your notes on the use of stirrups is particularly interesting. This is something that I will have to read more about. It would be fascinating if the Romans were aware of stirrups and still didn’t adopt them into their cavalry. </p><p><br /></p><p>Your John Quincy Adams follis has an especially impressive pedigree and is a nice coin despite the flatness. I quite like finding older provenances for affordable coins. Seems more of a special circumstance that the history stayed with the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will mirror your good, better, best approach but with tetrarchy folles.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good: One of the earliest post reform coins from Lugdunum.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1360956[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Better: Well struck in nice style of Constantius as Caesar.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1360959[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Best: An invasion of Britain Follis of Constantius. One of my favorite coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1360957[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I’ll close it out with one of my better provenances in honor of your JQA. Ex Stoecklin and Naegeli Collections.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1360958[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Roman Empire</font></p><p><font size="3">Maximinus II Daia As Caesar</font></p><p><font size="3">Æ Follis, Alexandria mint, 5th officina. Struck late AD 308-309. </font></p><p><font size="3">Wt.: 7.12g</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv.: GAL VAL MAXIMINVS NOB CAES; Laureate head right</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev.: GENIO CA-ESARIS Genius standing left, holding patera from which liquor flows, and cornucopia; K-E/P//ALE. </font></p><p><font size="3">Ref.: RIC VI 100a.</font></p><p><font size="3">Ex Dr. Louis Naegeli Collection (1858-1951), Ex W. F. Stoeklin Collection (1888-1975). Obolos 9, March 25, 2018, Lot 437. </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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