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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4853397, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with TIF on this point but some equals are more equal than others.&nbsp; The differences are more in the minds of the collector than in some absolute truth.&nbsp; What I find most interesting is not necessarily what you will even worth considering.&nbsp; Both TIF and I like Alexandrian coins but we are not as well aligned in other areas (e.g. my love of technically odd coins).&nbsp; That is fine and allows us all to collect &#039;our way&#039;. She showed four examples of which I have one and would love the other three. I show here four coins I like but do not know whether you might or might not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dated to the last four months of 211 AD, this Alexandrian tetradrachm is the only type I know that shows the two co-Augusti after the death of father but before one killed the other.&nbsp; I may be the only person who finds this interesting but I can not imagine how these two brothers felt about the issue of this type.&nbsp; I am, compared to Caracalla, relatively easy to get along with BUT I probably would have crucified the mintmaster.&nbsp; TIF and everyone likes the rodeo snake best but I like the history of my favorite Alexandrian coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171966[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Many people collect Roman Republican denarii a lot more seriously than I do but this one attracted my attention because the die cutter attempted to show a 3/4 perspective view of the reverse galley when most coins of the period stuck with flat on side views.&nbsp; The boat appears to be flexing toward the viewer and shows oars on both sides as well as the full face of the prow.&nbsp; TIF prefers the sewer coin; I like the bendable boat.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171965[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with TIF regarding the high interest in Roman Provincial coins.&nbsp; My favorite is much simpler than her Dido but shows the figure of Apollo Sauroktonos showing the lost Greek masterpiece of Praxiteles known today by a Roman copy in the Louvre that probably dates to about the same time as my coin.&nbsp; This Nikopolis coin, posted on my website, resulted in a bonus personally when I was contacted by a college art professor that led to a long term, online friendship in coins.&nbsp; I put her in contact with another friend who sold her one similar and started her on the road to being an expert in that subject.&nbsp; Things like that add to interest in my book.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171981[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Of my hundred or so &#039;odd&#039; coins, top spot has to go to this Byzantine anonymous follis struck on a coin of Roman emperor Gordian III that was just short of 800 years old at the time.&nbsp; Many ancient coins were overstruck on earlier coins but most were on coins only a few years old when recycled.&nbsp; This is like finding a coin of Queen Elizabeth II struck on a Queen Elizabeth I.&nbsp; Strange. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171984[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In a few years you will find coins that fit your definition of &#039;special&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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