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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rexesq, post: 1194230, member: 5739&quot;]<b>Gordian centering..... anchor...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Well having a full circle like the VICTORIA AETERNAE Gordian Ant I posted from my collection is a bit uncommon on the market these days, unless you are willing to spend alot, even on some of the more common coin types.... I think alot of the nice, very well centered ones are in private collections, just a guess.... and that a great majority were struck slightly off center, something our US mint wouldnt allow today unless it slipped by the inspectors, and as we know, they sometimes do.</p><p>&nbsp;Your Gordian LAETITIA AUG N - Silver Ant is very nice, I like it alot.... I still don&#039;t have any coins with Laetitia... yours has great portrait detail(note the ear above the radiate crown, rather than the two being worn down to the same height) and in fact well centered compared to many... I always liked how she holds the top of an anchor on the reverse.... </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are one more coin of my Gordian III collection, my SALUS AUGUSTI denarius. Struck in AD240 as a part of 6 denarii types to commemorate a wedding of the Emperor if I am not mistaken, one of the last major issues of the denarius for circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>....quite off subject, but take a look at this childhood pic of me from Pearl Harbor on the island of O&#039;ahu, Hawaii, standing in front of an Anchor... I also can&#039;t add that childhood pic without adding the one of me next to a projectile from a large battleship.. 1,200 some odd pounds of weight in that projectile alone, plus it says &#039;Explosive: ST104 pounds&#039; I assume that is the explosive inside the projectile itself for when it impacts... the weight not counting the propellant, that would be loaded below the projectile in the battleship gun, which if I read correctly says to use 420pounds of propellant, so the one I am standing next to is just the projectile for the battleship&#039;s gun..... I think this one was taken in Texas actually.... I used to have this blonde hair... no longer, all&nbsp; brown now, no sign of blonde. I was very young in the one with the projectile, and a bit older in the firt one with the anchor... maybe 12 yo or so.... heck of an anchor though, no? and check out that chain! I forget what ship it was from, but I think it was salvaged and refurbished from one of the ships sunk by the Japs..... these two are old photographs that I took digital camera pictures of, but came out okay. I loved that trip to O&#039;ahu and Pearl Harbor, even being so young.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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