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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 2789330, member: 85693&quot;]I buy all sorts of goofy coins that I like for inexplicable reasons - I&#039;d certainly go for the creepy &quot;Ghost Swan&quot; Piso. </p><p><br /></p><p>For reasons I can neither explain nor defend, I really like off-center ancients.&nbsp; Here is a Social War-era RR denarius I recently picked up.&nbsp; I love this type, and yeah, I&#039;d like to get one where the mask of Silenus is actually visible.&nbsp; But I really like this one...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]647450[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, D. Iunius L. f. Silanus. Ca. 90 BC. AR denarius. Mask of bearded Silenus right, plough right below, all within torque / Victory in biga right, brandishing whip and holding palm-branch, carnyx beneath horses, D SILANVS L F in exergue. Cr. 337/1a; Junia 19; Sear 222.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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