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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2582396, member: 19463"]I wish I had such good cleaning skills. Yours is a considerable reverse die clash which rather reduced the A in the reverse field. They come both ways. Note the exergue in the first below.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]560751[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>and the field in the second.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]560752[/ATTACH] </p><p>There are many round Gallienus coins but they come from certain mints at certain times so the come with certain reverses and this is not one of them. We each have to ask if we will collect typical coins from periods where that means scrappy or only examples from mints that had their act together to meet or standards. </p><p><br /></p><p>Note that modern politicians still use the line that Martial actions are needed to bring world peace. We won't discuss the truth of that but only note that the idea is not new.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2582396, member: 19463"]I wish I had such good cleaning skills. Yours is a considerable reverse die clash which rather reduced the A in the reverse field. They come both ways. Note the exergue in the first below. [ATTACH=full]560751[/ATTACH] and the field in the second. [ATTACH=full]560752[/ATTACH] There are many round Gallienus coins but they come from certain mints at certain times so the come with certain reverses and this is not one of them. We each have to ask if we will collect typical coins from periods where that means scrappy or only examples from mints that had their act together to meet or standards. Note that modern politicians still use the line that Martial actions are needed to bring world peace. We won't discuss the truth of that but only note that the idea is not new.[/QUOTE]
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