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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 4986228, member: 72790&quot;]Well I noticed the OP wrote, &quot;if you like looking at the coins of Augustus&quot;. Well, I do and I&#039;ll take this opportunity to post some of my own. I have more coins of Augustus in my collection than those of any other emperor except Nero. As I wrote just above I have several which I suspect may be fourrees, although they were not sold to me as such and I don&#039;t think came with a substantial discount. From left to right, Octavian, ca. 30 BC with Mars on obverse, shield on rev. 3.28 grams and well circulated and over cleaned. Next a bare headed Octavian, ca. 28 BC, Curia Julia on rev., 3.63 grams. Third, a scarcer piece with some corrosion, full facing&nbsp; Augustus, rev. Mars. Probably the year 16 BC as this coin may have been issued to celebrate the recovery of Augustus from a serious illness in that year. It weighs 3.8 grams. Fourth is a copper As, also of ca. 16 BC. Fifth and sixth are both the ever present Caius and Lucius coins, probably the most common denarii of Augustus. Number five weighs 3.61 grams and six comes in at 3.7 grams. Six is another more common coin with the butting bull on the reverse and it weighs 3.6 grams. Number eight is with Gaius Caesar on horseback weighing 3.35 grams. Number nine is an As from a Spanish mint with a somewhat different appearing Augustus, but pretty good style for a provincial mint. The bull looks a good deal like the much latter bull on the coinage of Julian the Apostate. Lastly is a denarius that I think may be a fourree. it has a shield with SPQR around it and weighs just a tad under 3 grams, somewhat light and if you look closely one can see, I think, some copper through the silver, especially on the reverse. From the wear it looks like it circulated for a while.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197907[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1197908[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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