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Message:: [QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1837877, member: 42773"]A coin's numismatic interest has nothing to do with its eye-appeal. Rather than say, "Yuk" it would be more intelligent to ask, "Why do these coins look so different in style from others?" Roman minting became gradually decentralized in the first century BC, and with that decentralization came a plethora of styles which we don't necessarily recognize as being related to the Imperial style that would evolve in the first century AD. Augustus opened and/or reopened mints at Emerita, Lugdunum, Ephesus and Pergamum, and in Spain and Greece. This decentralization would become a permanent feature of the empire, and a wide variety of styles would always be prevalent. A collection of the colonial coinage of Augustus would be very interesting precisely because the styles differ so dramatically.[/QUOTE]