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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4571390, member: 19463&quot;]I regret the tendency in the hobby to curse the glass half empty rather than enjoy the glass half full. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are a thousand categories by which we might rank coins and it is extremely rare to find one coin that leads in every one of them.&nbsp; Limes pointed out the bull muscles which are wonderful on that coin.&nbsp; We all have heard of fine style and fine portrait but the minor details come to play without being mentioned.&nbsp; Some have nicer hair, a better mouth, natural expression, a bull with gracefully curving tail --- all combine to give interest and beauty for those who choose to find them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Certainly!&nbsp; Not having a portrait can produce a new layer of interesting features.&nbsp; Few would select it as the &#039;one and only&#039; Augustus but I certainly enjoy mine despite its horrific faults that disqualify it from most collections.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1131894[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course many of us would have more coins of Augustus where it not for their biggest &#039;fault&#039; in my book.&nbsp; They are too popular.&nbsp; Too many people who know next to nothing about Roman history know Augustus and want a coin of his.&nbsp; Were his coins as common as they are but with the demand of issues by an absolute nobody, we would call them &#039;cockroaches&#039;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I believe this is the only example in Roman coinage where coins showing heirs apparent as a reverse type are looked down upon rather than being preferred.&nbsp; We like almost all family coins but I certainly value my C&amp;L below any other coin of Augustus.&nbsp; I&#039;m fickle.&nbsp; Of all the coins shown so far in this thread, only one was a C&amp;L.&nbsp; My personal example is not fine style and not much of a coin to the point I won&#039;t show it now.&nbsp; If Rodney Dangerfield had collected coins, this might have been his specialty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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