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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 2923372, member: 82549&quot;]Back when I first started buying uncleaned ancient coins, I was inundated--great word, inundated; I use it whenever I can--with 4 common reverse types: </p><p><br /></p><p>GLORIA EXERCITVS - Soldiers with standards;</p><p>FEL TEMP REPARATIO - Emperor spearing fallen horseman;</p><p>GLORIA ROMANORUM - Emperor dragging captive; and</p><p>SECVRITAS-REIPVBLICAE - Victory advancing with wreath and palm.</p><p><br /></p><p>I decided that rather than get irritated about constantly finding these pesky little LRBs, I&#039;d start collection them in much the same way that I collected US pennies as a kid. So I put together a checklist of emperors and mints of each type, figuring that instead of thinking: &quot;Oh, Crimminy, not another Gloria Romanorum. Borrrrrring!&quot; I&#039;d think: &quot;Wow! Arcadius from Siscia! I need that one.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>It almost worked. I collected these for several years, and got close to completing a couple of the issues. Then I found a rare Constantine in some uncleaned coins and switched to collecting him. Within a few years I&#039;d sold most of the earlier collections on eBay to pay for new Constantines.</p><p><br /></p><p>BUT MY POINT--I do tend to ramble on Saturdays--is that I still have the old checklist in case anyone, particularly anyone used to collecting US type sets, is interested in picking up where I failed. I&#039;ve gone ahead and uploaded it to my web site:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://feltemp.com/Library/Common_LRB_Reverses.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://feltemp.com/Library/Common_LRB_Reverses.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://feltemp.com/Library/Common_LRB_Reverses.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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