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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3429034, member: 19463"]Please remember that denarii of Philip are of the greatest rarity. Your coin with a radiate crown is a double denarius or antoninianus. </p><p><br /></p><p>IMO the best of the GGG coins are those issued by Carausius in his attempt to convince Diocletian and Maximianus that he was one of them. It did not work. </p><p><br /></p><p>Carausius C mint</p><p>[ATTACH=full]910530[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Diocletian London mint</p><p>[ATTACH=full]910531[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Maximianus London mint - the GGG is off flan on this one but the London mintmark proves it was from the series.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]910532[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a backup coin for this but no better. (Anyone want it?) Finding any of these in high grade will be hard but nice ones are ridiculously expensive. I do not have the London GGG for Carausius or the C mint versions for the other two. They are want list items. [ATTACH=full]910533[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>No on my want list because of my being realistic is the famous triple portrait GGG coin:</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=28186" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=28186" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=28186</a></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/big/621074.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3429034, member: 19463"]Please remember that denarii of Philip are of the greatest rarity. Your coin with a radiate crown is a double denarius or antoninianus. IMO the best of the GGG coins are those issued by Carausius in his attempt to convince Diocletian and Maximianus that he was one of them. It did not work. Carausius C mint [ATTACH=full]910530[/ATTACH] Diocletian London mint [ATTACH=full]910531[/ATTACH] Maximianus London mint - the GGG is off flan on this one but the London mintmark proves it was from the series. [ATTACH=full]910532[/ATTACH] I have a backup coin for this but no better. (Anyone want it?) Finding any of these in high grade will be hard but nice ones are ridiculously expensive. I do not have the London GGG for Carausius or the C mint versions for the other two. They are want list items. [ATTACH=full]910533[/ATTACH] No on my want list because of my being realistic is the famous triple portrait GGG coin: [url]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=28186[/url] [IMG]https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/big/621074.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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