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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4539825, member: 10461"]*Featured Article- congrats!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's one I was surprised but pleased to win. Just today, in fact. <font size="3">(<b>Beware </b>- it's not ancient - but at least it IS old, and made of that nice shiny yellow stuff, with the handsome orange toning I like on my little discs made of old, shiny yellow stuff.)</font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1123948[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there's Valerian. That whole "human footstool" story (and the mystery of said human footstool's final fate) is fascinating. Here's a Valerian from my first novice Roman collection of 2007-08. I bought a lot of that collection, including this coin, from Steve McBride of Incitatus Coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1123951[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I was seeing how far I could go with an "emperors and empresses" portrait set (A to Z - Augustus to Zeno), and managed to acquire over a hundred different personalities (108-110-ish, I think) in the year or so I worked on that collection (before my layoff in the 2008 recession forced me to sell it all). It was a frenzy, because I was having fun with it and was very enthusiastic, if not yet very selective.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then Gallienus. This coin was also from that early collection of mine. It appeared to be made of good silver, or at least the very best silver<i>ing</i> I've seen on an Æ antoninanus, anyway. It was quite bright and had nice light orangish toning. It was cheap, too- like $45-ish in 2007, if I remember correctly. The old image (from a flatbed scanner) does it no justice.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1123959[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4539825, member: 10461"]*Featured Article- congrats! Here's one I was surprised but pleased to win. Just today, in fact. [SIZE=3]([B]Beware [/B]- it's not ancient - but at least it IS old, and made of that nice shiny yellow stuff, with the handsome orange toning I like on my little discs made of old, shiny yellow stuff.)[/SIZE] [ATTACH=full]1123948[/ATTACH] And then there's Valerian. That whole "human footstool" story (and the mystery of said human footstool's final fate) is fascinating. Here's a Valerian from my first novice Roman collection of 2007-08. I bought a lot of that collection, including this coin, from Steve McBride of Incitatus Coins. [ATTACH=full]1123951[/ATTACH] I was seeing how far I could go with an "emperors and empresses" portrait set (A to Z - Augustus to Zeno), and managed to acquire over a hundred different personalities (108-110-ish, I think) in the year or so I worked on that collection (before my layoff in the 2008 recession forced me to sell it all). It was a frenzy, because I was having fun with it and was very enthusiastic, if not yet very selective. And then Gallienus. This coin was also from that early collection of mine. It appeared to be made of good silver, or at least the very best silver[I]ing[/I] I've seen on an Æ antoninanus, anyway. It was quite bright and had nice light orangish toning. It was cheap, too- like $45-ish in 2007, if I remember correctly. The old image (from a flatbed scanner) does it no justice. [ATTACH=full]1123959[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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