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Message:: [QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 3543041, member: 97383"]TIF, dougsmit, Jochen1, Roman Collector, & others, Roman provincial coins long considered the "black sheep" of ancient coin collecting are seriously getting new life! New books by authors like Richard McAlee, Michel & Karin Prieur, Wane Sayles, & reprints like Kenneth Harl's classic Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700, have been the impetus for the growth in Roman provincial coins. All this literature has certainly swayed me to this side of the hobby. Taking the Fahrenheit 451 approach to this phenomenon, as dougsmit humorously suggests, won't impede the growth of this facet of the hobby. Provincials are more than "trendy", they are a "hot spot" in the hobby.[/QUOTE]