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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2325161, member: 76194&quot;]No coin is perfect, especially ancient coins. So rather than judge by what&#039;s not there, look at what it has. The portrait of Augustus is very well done and he looks like a handsome powerful man at the peak of his physical and political prowess. Caesar, although not a realistic portrait, is very well preserved and very well artistically done. So despite the so called flaws, I would say this is a very desirable, attractive, and historically significant coin that belongs in the collection of a demanding ancient coin connoisseur, which you clearly are.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of flaws, my Gordian III antoninianus has a rim ding from someone dropping it 1,700 years ago (you can tell it&#039;s a very old ding when you look at it). Doesn&#039;t bother me one bit because it has an attractive portrait and a sweet reverse theme. At the risk of being repetitive, no ancient coin is perfect, even my most attractive ancient coins have some flaws somewhere if I bother to look. We can only judge by what is there rather than lament what&#039;s not there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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