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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5207287, member: 110350&quot;]Thanks to everyone for your very kind words. I had a lot of enjoyment this year from adding to my collection of Roman Republican coins. Finding enjoyment this year, in whatever way, has been especially important for reasons we all know. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course it hasn&#039;t just been &quot;see coin, buy coin&quot; for me; I probably looked at more than 200 Republican coins for each one I decided to buy, not even counting the ones out of my price range. A substantial number of Republican coins are so off-center or so worn that much of the design is missing or not visible, and there are many other coins that may be in great condition but are so repetitive, with&nbsp; minor differences, that they just didn&#039;t interest me -- an endless procession of bigas and quadrigas with Roma on the obverse.&nbsp; But when I see a Republican coin I do really like, with an interesting reverse (I like dynamic reverses with &quot;things happening,&quot; like [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER], plus I love non-equestrian animals of course!) I tend to fall in love with it in an instant. Including the one biga I did buy, together with the triga that I feel goes with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=112621]@Restitutor[/USER], welcome to Roman Republican coin collecting. There&#039;s plenty of room for both of us! </p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER], I&#039;m sure you&#039;ve posted them all before, but I&#039;d be very curious to see the other Republican types you particularly like.&nbsp; I do know that there&#039;s one type you have -- the other Fonteius with a galley, different from mine in that the Dioscuri&#039;s heads are jugate, and the galley is in a sort of three-quarters view -- that I very much want. But I rarely see decent examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>@svessian, I agree that the Vibius Varus (panther) and Fonteius Capito (Roman horseman) are often off-center. The same is true of some of the others, like the Mamilius with Ulysses and his dog on the reverse -- it seems that more than half the examples are missing the dog! So when I saw examples that were almost fully centered, and weren&#039;t missing anything important from the design, I jumped on them right away.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=85693]@Marsyas Mike[/USER], I apologize for not selecting my Apollo-Marsyas denarius for my top 10.&nbsp; But don&#039;t forget that it was one of the five I posted that didn&#039;t make the top 10, which means it was in my top 15 -- tied for 12th with the Vibius Pansa, in fact. Which isn&#039;t bad! Here it is again:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1215249[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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