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<p>[QUOTE="Blake Davis, post: 3253137, member: 91820"]Beautiful coin - I must have missed it in my review of the BM coins. It is far nicer than the one I purchased, and the reverse is from the same die - as I mentioned, I will post it upon receipt. This really is a magnificent example, but heck it is a museum! I have to admit that I like the portraits on the late coins of Caracalla better - I would love to know how often the Rome mint changed celators. There was one celator doing Caracalla sestertii who was a phenomenal artist, but I never saw his work duplicated.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, does anyone know how to make plaster casts of coins? I promised to send one of my coins to someone in order to make a cast, but I thought I might try doing one of my own.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also it seems like the British Museum has added a number of coins recently to its database - does anyone know if they have done so?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blake Davis, post: 3253137, member: 91820"]Beautiful coin - I must have missed it in my review of the BM coins. It is far nicer than the one I purchased, and the reverse is from the same die - as I mentioned, I will post it upon receipt. This really is a magnificent example, but heck it is a museum! I have to admit that I like the portraits on the late coins of Caracalla better - I would love to know how often the Rome mint changed celators. There was one celator doing Caracalla sestertii who was a phenomenal artist, but I never saw his work duplicated. By the way, does anyone know how to make plaster casts of coins? I promised to send one of my coins to someone in order to make a cast, but I thought I might try doing one of my own. Also it seems like the British Museum has added a number of coins recently to its database - does anyone know if they have done so?[/QUOTE]
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