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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3738336, member: 19463&quot;]I simply do not spend the time online necessary to be of use on Coin Talk in a timely fashion.&nbsp; I spent the day selling pumpkins at our church fundraiser.&nbsp; &nbsp; TIF posted the full ID.&nbsp; Like the OP coin, mine is weak at the start of the obverse legend where the important OVHPOC needs to be seen. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1002611[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>However this post let me to look for coins of the type and city.&nbsp; I found them for Antoninus Pius through Gordian III but not for two major names that I really think should have been represented.&nbsp; There is no Septimius Severus. Young Geta is rare but old (sole reign) Caracalla is well represented.&nbsp; The one I really want to see is the totally absent Lucius Verus.&nbsp; The Aurelius coins are common and from the earliest period just after Pius adopted the two boys.&nbsp; Why was one so common and the other ignored?&nbsp; Why were there so few during the life of Septimius Severus?&nbsp; Students of Hadrianopolis may know details of history that ill make sense to lean years but I would really like to know why Lucius Verus was ignored.&nbsp; Was any of it related to the use of the name Verus by Aurelius at this time?&nbsp; The portraits are obviously Marcus (Lucius Verus dd not look like these portraits).&nbsp; Did the mint know there were two boys?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The truth is I am too lazy to do research on the matter.&nbsp; I have enough questions backed up that currently rank higher on my curiosity list.&nbsp; Anyone else interested in the question?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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