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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2405925, member: 19463&quot;]I selected my favorite emperor back in 1963 when I bought an unusual denarius of Septimius Severus who strikes me as filling the bill in so many ways.&nbsp; He was historically significant, founded a dynasty, won a civil war establishing the precedent that big dogs win and has many Imperial types from several mints and thousands of Provincial types from hundreds of cities.&nbsp; Each year we still find new variations (mostly Eastern mints).&nbsp; He has many coins in all metals with some different types than we see for other rules as well as a good spread of the regular Roman stuff.&nbsp; My first reason was that his silver denarii were cheap enough to be affordable but not all available by the roll and bagful.&nbsp; There are super rarities that most dealers do not know are rare and others that are so well known that guys like me could never hope to have one.&nbsp; Variety, price, significance (whether you consider him a hero or a villain) and family make his coins appealing. </p><p>I&#039;d show a few examples here but you really, really don&#039;t want to get us started again, do you?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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