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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3239663, member: 99456&quot;]Some fantastic examples in the kidney bean flan Augustus, Caligula, Otho, Balbinus, Severina, Postumus, and others, and for me the irregularities and scars tell interesting stories of:</p><p>- the emperors and their time period</p><p>- the mint making process </p><p>- the environmental factors that a coin must endure to be here 2000 years after minting</p><p>- the interests and the mindsets of their owners</p><p>It is these stories that grabbed me when as an curious 11 year old in Italy a friendly shop owner gave me a roman coin - a heavy corroded AE that I puzzled over trying to see letters in the corroded surface and make out the outline of the emperor&#039;s face and imagine what people looked like and the streets felt like at that time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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