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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2132983, member: 19463&quot;]I don&#039;t recall seeing TIF&#039;s coin but I am having trouble remembering which of mine have been used here, too, and have no hope of remembering all of everyone&#039;s group.&nbsp; I like that one with year 4 but still a lot of Trajan in the face.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My apologies if this is a retread.&nbsp; This is a silver hemidrachm of Caesarea, year 4, 1.36g.&nbsp; A friend specializes in Caesarea and told me it is as common as they get.&nbsp; Of course he has been collecting them longer than I have been alive and has some real rarities.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]406430[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, there is this little scrap of bronze which I now consider a Provincial of Antioch, Syria.&nbsp; At 0.8g, these were once sold as the last of the Roman unicae but I see no reason today to call them that.&nbsp; I also have no idea how to tell a Trajan from a Hadrian on such a low grade coin.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]406431[/ATTACH] </p><p>This one from acsearch is nicer.&nbsp; Not nice, just nicer.</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=657766" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=657766" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=657766</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Now I&#039;m sure I have shown all my Hadrian Provincials here.&nbsp; I would buy more if they came my way at a show but I&#039;ll prefer to see the Okidoki parade of champions. </p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding survival rates.&nbsp; I rather suspect enough coins were melted down and recoined that 1% is way too high as a survival rate.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to know which of my 1st century silver coins contains some remelted EID MAR and how many Pescennius Niger/Didius Julianus contributed metal to some of my Septimius denarii.&nbsp; Maybe I&#039;m better off not knowing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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