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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24648194, member: 26430&quot;]That&#039;s a good point. I believe that was the idea, although I&#039;d want to follow up on some references to check or get confirmation from someone who really knows the Provincial coins of this period.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="6">SACRIFICES!</font></b></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t restrict myself to any particular denomination, and &quot;12 Caesars&quot; isn&#039;t that high on my priorities to collect (but it is on the list), so my own set includes some &quot;sacrifices.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Claudius in <b>Provincial </b>bronze!</b> <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=622873" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=622873" rel="nofollow">BCD Peloponnesos 2782</a>:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1569111[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Caligula (probably) on Reverse.</b> My Caligula doesn&#039;t even have a Caligula portrait on the obverse, just him (probably) sitting on the curule! <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3835735" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3835735" rel="nofollow">Ex ANS - HSA 1001.1.22981 (Huntington)</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1569112[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Otho &amp; Titus Denarii -- Mostly!</b> Returning to the theme of 12 Caesar&#039;s Denarii, my Titus and my Otho have made some significant sacrifices for science. Both ex-Muona Coll., and Butcher &amp; Ponting&#039;s <i>Metallurgy </i>studies (see <a href="https://issuu.com/hjb-ancientcoins/docs/hjb_s_212th_buy_or_bid_sale" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/hjb-ancientcoins/docs/hjb_s_212th_buy_or_bid_sale" rel="nofollow">HJB BBS 212</a>, 511 for a much larger group of them, originally incl. these two):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1569114[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1569113[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>A (time of) Galba Provincial AE ... or Maybe Not at All?</b> My Galba, below, is probably the biggest sacrifice with respect to the goal of 12 Caesars coinage! (Never was a portrait at all, just a Persephone/Warrior <i>temp.</i> Galba.) I collect coins that have somehow been part of the numismatic literature and I also like Countermarks and Provincials; it fits all of those. RPC has its doubts about this specimen&#039;s identification but I think BCD was right: struck &amp; countermarked during the reign of Galba in Lokri Opuntii (BCD Lokris-Phokis 157.5 = <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1342" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1342" rel="nofollow">RPC I Online 1342 example 14</a>):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1569115[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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