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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1795686, member: 42773&quot;]When this thread was first posted, I did some homework on Hadrian and his coinage, and went looking to see if I could find a piece that appealed to me in my budget. (It doesn&#039;t take much to get me to shop for coins).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I didn&#039;t want to settle for something, just to have an example of the emperor, but I kept coming back to this coin all day yesterday and today, so I finally just pulled the trigger.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A more discriminating collector probably wouldn&#039;t be satisfied with the fact that the legends are significantly clipped in places, but I was drawn to the strong portrait, the equally strong depiction of Roma, and the excellent patina. Also, I don&#039;t see any evidence of tooling or any other sort of monkey-business. Just a little honest wear.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>(Does buying a coin just because a thread was started make me sheeple?)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s13.postimg.org/oe5f2aq13/hadrian.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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