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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2606939, member: 10461&quot;]I like your Max Thrax.&nbsp; I always like his prominent chin and somewhat benevolent expression on the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Philip I has a nice broad flan, from the looks of it.&nbsp; These (not to mention the denarii of Severus Alexander and some other &quot;common&quot; emperors) are big contenders in the &quot;bang for the buck&quot; category, wouldn&#039;t you say?</p><p><br /></p><p>Your Septimius Severus has nice, subtle &quot;<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-is-a-circcam-you-ask-look-and-see-and-post-yours.288335/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-is-a-circcam-you-ask-look-and-see-and-post-yours.288335/">CircCam</a>&quot; contrast, which is a look I&#039;ve always liked.&nbsp; (So much so that I invented a term for it, which, as you may have seen, has gained a little traction on the PCGS/CU forums.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Your Vespasian dupondius is, as I think I mentioned when you first posted it, a coin that has &quot;made the rounds&quot; between friends.&nbsp; [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] owned it initially, I ended up with it for a while, and then somehow it made its way back to him. I forget how and when, exactly.&nbsp; But I recognized it as one I used to own.&nbsp; So all three of us have owned that one now.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love seeing your newfound enthusiasm for this stuff because it echoes my own &quot;discovery&quot; of Roman coins almost ten years ago.&nbsp; I had owned some Roman coins long before then, but in the summer of 2007 I finally got serious about collecting them for a while, and it was a wonderful journey.&nbsp; In some ways I am envious of your adventure, because the period of my initial enthusiasm and learning was a happy, heady time for me, and I remember it fondly.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS- I see one of your newps is absent from this list.&nbsp; You know.&nbsp; The somewhat <i>yellowish-colored</i> one?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m looking forward to seeing better pix of that one when you have it in hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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