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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2492106, member: 19463&quot;]That&#039;s pretty rough just because the coins are 99.9% cheap and unpopular with investors.&nbsp; Are there any investment grade Claudius ants?&nbsp;&nbsp; There are some nice golds.&nbsp; Certainly you will not get rich on Claudius II and as long as the majority of people who own ancient coins are more interested in their cash appreciation potential there might be a chance for someone out there to make a real contribution to numismatic science studying them.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure that there is a real opportunity in the study of barbarous copies of this period.&nbsp; I may be short sighted but fail to see how we can ever prove anything organizing the unofficial coins.&nbsp; They have such a range from what probably fools experts into believing they are official to those identifiable by the blind.&nbsp; We usually see barbarous coins listed as copying a specific ruler or type but there are some that are hard to accept as even copying something we have seen before.&nbsp; They are fun but I wouldn&#039;t pin my hopes of a doctoral candidacy on figuring them out.&nbsp; Who does this copy?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]527574[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A point:&nbsp; Not all copies of Roman coins were used in places where the emperors defined legality.&nbsp; Saying they were tolerated implies a level of control far beyond what I suspect existed in much of the regions surrounding the limits of the Empire.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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