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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 2705335, member: 44210&quot;]<blockquote><p>After a long delay, here is another coin I bought at FUN back in January.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not care much for Roman Republic history or coins (crucify me RR fans), but at $5 in a junk pile I felt like it was a pretty fair deal. Plus I don&#039;t have too many BC-era coins (working on that through mainly going for Greek coins).</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d rather it didn&#039;t have the hole but I&#039;m not obsessive over it; gives it a bit of character. Also, comparing it to one of my Rome-mint Byzantines it&#039;s interesting that even though they are from the same city and struck by the Roman state, they couldn&#039;t be much more different from each other (and I don&#039;t mean by appearance). One was made when the city of Rome was a rising player in Europe, destined to rule over a powerful and prosperous empire; the other when Rome was a backwater town full of reminders of its past beauty and glory; a victim of war and economic decline. So much history behind and between these two Roman coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please feel free to post anything you think is relevant, or post coins from the same mint that were struck centuries apart.</p><p><br /></p><p>AE uncia struck from 217-215 BC in Rome, during the Second Punic War:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]609613[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My Justinian half-follis from Rome, struck from 537-542 AD during the Gothic War:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cointalk.com%2Fproxy.php%3Fimage%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cointalk.com%252Fproxy.php%253Fimage%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fi1197.photobucket.com%25252Falbums%25252Faa429%25252FLurkingNinja%25252Fjustinianhalfrome_zpsnpjzxuei.jpg%2526hash%253D3e03c3f62570a05931a98b7ba1be4dca%26hash%3D119e009ded80139a4a4791a71424c985&amp;hash=595d69516da9c8db2cddb1d4d08401de" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>(an old acquisition, not from FUN)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]609618[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]609616[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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