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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3585375, member: 85693&quot;]That is pretty funny!&nbsp; Here is another Onion piece about vases at the Met - read down to the last, sad sentence about coins (and museums):</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://local.theonion.com/metropolitan-museum-acquires-another-vase-1830499658" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://local.theonion.com/metropolitan-museum-acquires-another-vase-1830499658" rel="nofollow">https://local.theonion.com/metropolitan-museum-acquires-another-vase-1830499658</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As for aqueducts, one of my very first ancients, purchased in 1987 for $25 is a Roman Republican denarius with an aqueduct:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]957113[/ATTACH]&nbsp; </p><p><b>Roman</b> <b>Republic&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Denarius </b></p><p><b>L. Marcius Philippus</b></p><p><b>(56 B.C.)&nbsp; </b></p><p>Diademed head of Ancus Marcius right, lituus left; below, ANCVS / Equestrian statue right on arcade of five arches, inscription within, AQVA MR; on l., PHILIPPVS</p><p>Crawford 425/1; RRC 919.</p><p>(3.77 grams / 16 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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