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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2827099, member: 19463&quot;]Guys, please, if you are going to fight over my old coins, do it <i>before</i> the auction closes.&nbsp; I was surprised that the coin survived its first outing in JA&#039;s sales with no bids but I guess people found it unattractive due to the legend loss.&nbsp; I simply have too many coins of Claudius II Gothicus and decided several had to go.&nbsp; Interest was minimal.&nbsp; I like Claudius partly due to his strong portraits.&nbsp; He was known as Gothicus for his successes against the Goths but coins bearing that name were not issued until after his death.&nbsp; My only example is not bold on the important part of the legend but it is what it is.</p><p>DIVO CLAVDIO GOTHICO / CONSECRATIO</p><p>[ATTACH=full]665378[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I find interest in the issue of coins honoring Claudius II under Constantine I who claimed to be a descendant of his.&nbsp; The claim recorded in Scriptores Historiae Augustae was that Claudius&#039;s niece was the mother of Constantius I.&nbsp; It is fashionable to discount all of SHA as fabrication and there is a lot of augmentation of the truth in the works so accepting all is at least as foolish as dismissing all.&nbsp; Whatever the situation, Constantine included Claudius in his series of departed ancestors.&nbsp; Notice the face looks a lot more like Constantine than like Claudius.</p><p>DIVO CLAVDIO OPTIMO IMP / REQVIES OPTIMO RVM MERITORVM TSA Thessalonika mint</p><p>[ATTACH=full]665381[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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