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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3607116, member: 76194"]The level of wear in the Republican coinage it's very interesting. Makes me wonder if all F graded Republican coinage, the stuff many people avoid collecting today, are perhaps the coins that were circulated 150 + years...and were handled by people who saw and heard some of the most famous people in history such as Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Nero (just to name a few).</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, definitely recognize this type amongst the coins pictured on OP's post, though I doubt mine ever saw more than a decade of light use before it was buried.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]965778[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I know it's only natural for all of us to drool over XF or higher grades but what real collector can fault a coin for having circulated for two of the most eventful and amazing centuries in human history? The coins in the hoard really make me appreciate more the humble F and aVF Republican coinage that often gets ignored.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 3607116, member: 76194"]The level of wear in the Republican coinage it's very interesting. Makes me wonder if all F graded Republican coinage, the stuff many people avoid collecting today, are perhaps the coins that were circulated 150 + years...and were handled by people who saw and heard some of the most famous people in history such as Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Nero (just to name a few). By the way, definitely recognize this type amongst the coins pictured on OP's post, though I doubt mine ever saw more than a decade of light use before it was buried. [ATTACH=full]965778[/ATTACH] I know it's only natural for all of us to drool over XF or higher grades but what real collector can fault a coin for having circulated for two of the most eventful and amazing centuries in human history? The coins in the hoard really make me appreciate more the humble F and aVF Republican coinage that often gets ignored.[/QUOTE]
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