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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roma, post: 3003681, member: 93393&quot;]Many years ago I didn’t know anything about ancient roman coins. In my house there were already several roman coins in a pottery on a shelf but I wasn’t interested in them. </p><p>One Sunday in a flea market I purchased my first coin. I really didn’t know what kind of coin I purchased, I liked it and I bought it and today I can say that was overpriced.</p><p>When arrived at home I turned on my personal computer and searched with Altavista about Roman coins. One of the first results was a website hosted on Geocities named to Doug Smith. I thought “wow” it was for me a treasure of informations and raised in me the interest about ancient roman coinage but I didn’t understood anything about my coin so I wrote a mail to him and after few hours I got a reply with all the informations needed. </p><p>I will never stop to say thank you to Doug Smith who addicted me, I never told him this little story.( of course my pocket is less happy than me). </p><p>Even now I always find something to learn about history, mints, emperors, buildings. It is like a wheel that continues to move because everything I see is linked to something else, I never stop to read about facts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just to share this is the coin, the purchased number one (like Uncle Scrooge), not so beauty but will be always with me.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMP PROBVS AVG, bust radiated and cuirassed right.</p><p><br /></p><p>ADVENTVS AVG, Probus on horse advancing left, captive in front of him, R(thunderbolt)Z in exergue.</p><p><br /></p><p>Die Axis 12, RIC V-II 157, </p><p>4,1 grams, 23mm[ATTACH=full]743691[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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