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<p>[QUOTE="SwK, post: 2328445, member: 22309"][ATTACH=full]471741[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><b><i><font size="3">Coins are Art, perfection is in the eye of the beholder, it embodies colour, texture the skill </font></i></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3"><b> of a ‘master’ to paint, engrave a piece of beauty that will last forever into history and forever</b></font></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3"><br /></font></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3"><b>Dream coins to me are those that when you see them, touch them, they speak to you <b>“I am beautiful, love me and buy me”. This is the obsession of a collector, the emotion of the individual who wishes to own a piece of history. </b>The collector enjoys studying history to know what was his past then he will have a wider spectrum of the future.</b></font></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3"><b><br /></b></font></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3"><b>To have these above thoughts about a Roman Bronze is a rarity<b>, as it is hard to find an authentic coins</b> in the preservation of real meaning of a <b>‘natural’ bronze Roman coin.</b> With Gold or Silver it is far easier, only here we need to be careful about the coin, if it is genuine. Over the last 65 years Gold and Silver were in full trays at Leu in Switzerland, Bronze choice pieces were always in a small box in the back office tucked away. The coin struck in vast quantities and used by the ‘plebeians’ but the most difficult to find today and were always hidden away in the back office in a small black box an area of Classical Numismatics that could not be enjoyed by everybody as the pieces in a quality state of preservation were rare.</b></font></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3"><br /></font></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3"><b> The Roman Empire</b></font></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3"><b>Claudius, 41 – 54 above</b></font></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3"><b> Sestertius 50-54, Æ 29.97 g. TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP P P Laureate head r. Rev. SPES – AVGVSTA Spes, draped, advancing l., holding flower in upraised r. hand and raising skirt with l.; in exergue, S C. C 85. BMC 192. RIC 115. CBN 216.</b></font></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3"><b>The finest portrait of Claudius on a Roman bronze well struck on a full flan with</b></font></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3"><b>an untouched green-brown patina, good extremely fineEx Waddell 2, 1987, 480 and Leu 52, 1991, 167 sales. From the William James Conte collection.</b></font></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3">The fact that Claudius choses Spes, the goddess of hope, to occupy such a prominent place on his coinage, makes it clear that she was present in his thoughts. Carson suggests the type was introduced in the accession year of 41 because his own birthday, August 1, was the day of the vota to Spes, and in that accession year, Claudius invoked her assistance on behalf of his newborn son, Britannicus.Spes was also the goddess of the future, which gave her a prominent role in certain kinds of occasions, especially weddings and births, the latter of which made her valuable to children. With all of this in mind, his choice of Spes was especially appropriate during the event-filled year of 41.</font></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3">Carson notes that the Spes type afterward became a standard dynastic type for imperial heirs. In this case the reverse inscription, SPES AVGVSTA, takes on a more complete dimension by suggesting hope for the empire through the imperial family. Kent notes that by the time the later Spes sestertii were minted by Claudius, the “hope” of the Imperial succession had been transferred from Britannicus to his adopted son, Nero.The existence of numerous temples and altars to Spes in the capital, and the fine renderings of the goddess on Claudius’ sestertii suggest they are based upon a statuary prototype – perhaps one of great antiquity, considering its archaizing qualities</font></i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i><font size="3"><br /></font></i></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SwK, post: 2328445, member: 22309"][ATTACH=full]471741[/ATTACH] [CENTER][B][I][SIZE=3]Coins are Art, perfection is in the eye of the beholder, it embodies colour, texture the skill [/SIZE][/I][/B] [I][SIZE=3][B] of a ‘master’ to paint, engrave a piece of beauty that will last forever into history and forever[/B] [B]Dream coins to me are those that when you see them, touch them, they speak to you [B]“I am beautiful, love me and buy me”. This is the obsession of a collector, the emotion of the individual who wishes to own a piece of history. [/B]The collector enjoys studying history to know what was his past then he will have a wider spectrum of the future. To have these above thoughts about a Roman Bronze is a rarity[B], as it is hard to find an authentic coins[/B] in the preservation of real meaning of a [B]‘natural’ bronze Roman coin.[/B] With Gold or Silver it is far easier, only here we need to be careful about the coin, if it is genuine. Over the last 65 years Gold and Silver were in full trays at Leu in Switzerland, Bronze choice pieces were always in a small box in the back office tucked away. The coin struck in vast quantities and used by the ‘plebeians’ but the most difficult to find today and were always hidden away in the back office in a small black box an area of Classical Numismatics that could not be enjoyed by everybody as the pieces in a quality state of preservation were rare.[/B] [B] The Roman Empire Claudius, 41 – 54 above[/B] [B] Sestertius 50-54, Æ 29.97 g. TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP P P Laureate head r. Rev. SPES – AVGVSTA Spes, draped, advancing l., holding flower in upraised r. hand and raising skirt with l.; in exergue, S C. C 85. BMC 192. RIC 115. CBN 216.[/B] [B]The finest portrait of Claudius on a Roman bronze well struck on a full flan with an untouched green-brown patina, good extremely fineEx Waddell 2, 1987, 480 and Leu 52, 1991, 167 sales. From the William James Conte collection.[/B] The fact that Claudius choses Spes, the goddess of hope, to occupy such a prominent place on his coinage, makes it clear that she was present in his thoughts. Carson suggests the type was introduced in the accession year of 41 because his own birthday, August 1, was the day of the vota to Spes, and in that accession year, Claudius invoked her assistance on behalf of his newborn son, Britannicus.Spes was also the goddess of the future, which gave her a prominent role in certain kinds of occasions, especially weddings and births, the latter of which made her valuable to children. With all of this in mind, his choice of Spes was especially appropriate during the event-filled year of 41. Carson notes that the Spes type afterward became a standard dynastic type for imperial heirs. In this case the reverse inscription, SPES AVGVSTA, takes on a more complete dimension by suggesting hope for the empire through the imperial family. Kent notes that by the time the later Spes sestertii were minted by Claudius, the “hope” of the Imperial succession had been transferred from Britannicus to his adopted son, Nero.The existence of numerous temples and altars to Spes in the capital, and the fine renderings of the goddess on Claudius’ sestertii suggest they are based upon a statuary prototype – perhaps one of great antiquity, considering its archaizing qualities [/SIZE][/I][/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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