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Message:: [QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 24841720, member: 42034"]Hi Sulla80, Your denarius of C. Coelius Caldus is a beautiful piece and a wonderful reverse design.  I'm highly motivated to look for one for myself! Do you have a direct link to your piece on your website?  I can show you how to do this in HTML if you need to do the coding.  I'd like to read about the history involved in the interesting reverse design. My mistake, I thought it was L.C. Sulla from the resemblence to his portrait.[ATTACH=full]1591336[/ATTACH]Lucius Cornelius Sulla,denarius, 54 BCRoman Republican Coinage, Crawford # 434-1weight 4.160 gMy denarius, ex-Stack's, 2008, Sept 10th, #257. While my piece is quite high grade, I'm missing the "COS" in SVLLA COS on the obv legend.  Finding a nice high-grade piece with full legends tho is tough even if Sulla is not nearly as expensive as he should be compared to J.C.  I'd like to eventually get a better one and sell this one. I wonder why the 50's BC was quite full of people issuing portrait denarii? This is an interesting contrast from the usual Republican issues.  This summer I just bought a really nice Brutus ancestors issue & it too was struck in 54 BC. I'm hoping to do a presentation at FUN summer, on Roman Coinage: The Imperatorial Era.  That's why I got the Brutus.[/QUOTE]