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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rexesq, post: 1130516, member: 5739&quot;]Wow Doug, your similar drachm is amazing.... I LOVE the draped and cuirassed bust! Mine is just of his head, but I love the facial features of the young prince on my year 17 example. The other coins you post are beautiful as well. I like the Nike alot. I think I prefer it to the Mt. Argaeus reverse.</p><p>I have seen some of Hadrian and Nero listed as being from Caesarea with the Nike reverse and like it alot.... I am watching a couple more with Mt Argaeus on the reverse, one is of Sept Severus and mislabelled by the seller as a denarius, so maybe the heavy pocket collectors of rare Caesarea drachmai wont notice <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> .... from the pic of the obv that is used in the description from the seller, it does look alot like an early denarius, So I would love to add that one to my collection if I can have it at a reasonable price.... I think both of them have a figure atop the mountain rather than a star. I&#039;d love to get a didrachm of Julia Domna, or any of the other Severans..... or of Nero or Hadrian if he struck any. I like the heavier silver coins.... a Tridrachm would be super cool.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Question for doug</u></b>: That thing that looks like an upside down heart, or a pair of buttcheeks in the center, halfway to the top of Mt Argaeus, closer to the top on some of ours.... is that a cave or what? it can be seen quite clearly on my example, as well as some of yours.... do you know?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;I like how these particular Caracalla ones have a crescent moon in the field, even if it is vague and hard to see on the examples I have seen.... yours and mine are the only examples of that style of caracalla I have seen, even though they are a bit different, and from 10 years apart.... I love that yours has a draped and cuirassed bust, and he does look quite young and boyish, great bust.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am also just amazed at the fact that the one I bought ends up being the only example shown for the type in the Caesarea section of coins on wildwinds, <u>AND</u> that the price it sold for on CNG however long ago, is actually <u>MORE </u> than I paid the other day..... how cool is that? I think I got a really good deal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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