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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;thejewk, post: 3435438, member: 100136&quot;]When I first started looking at Roman coins with any serious intent towards the end of last year, I dismissed the &#039;Provincial&#039; coinage that I saw as rustic and more than a little bit crude.&nbsp; After looking again and again over the last few months, I&#039;ve started to see something else entirely.</p><p><br /></p><p>The familiar Roma pantheon replaced by other interesting god and goddess types, dynastic coinage quite different from the Rome mint, interesting &#039;semi-autonomous&#039; coins telling the story of their city, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not only that, but they also offer a way to acquire a coin of an Augustus or -a that would be far more expensive elsewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>And so I added an Antoninus Pius from Antioch, Syria to my collection recently, and I have my eye on others of Lucius Verus and Nerva, and an ugly but charming Commodus with Crispina/Demeter on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you collect Provincials, and if so, why? Or why not?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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