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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3513407, member: 99456&quot;][USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER], an interesting thread!&nbsp; My collection is almost all from the &quot;glass half full&quot; category.&nbsp; Being interested in the stories of the people and the times, the wear or strike flaws are sometimes the features that draw me to a coin.&nbsp; Of your coins above I am not sure &quot;low grade&quot; applies to any by my standards, the bronze of Severus is the one I would choose of the three for the high relief portrait alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two coins to illustrate my take on &quot;eye appeal&quot;.&nbsp; First a Trajan denarius that &quot;followed me home&quot; with high relief portrait and the nice details on the wings of victory.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]932001[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Trajan</b>, 98-117 AD, AR Denarius</p><p>Struck circa 107 AD</p><p><b>Obv: </b>IMP TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P, laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder</p><p><b>Rev:</b> COS V P P S P Q R OPTIMO PRINC, Victory standing facing, head left, holding wreath in right hand and palm left hand</p><p><b>Ref: </b>RSC 74, RCV 3129</p><p><b>Note:</b> Dacia was annexed as a roman province after the defeat and death of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decebalus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decebalus" rel="nofollow">King Decebalus</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Second, an Augustus denarius chosen for it&#039;s obverse youthful portrait of Augustus at least 60 years old and an off-center strike that still shows nicely the two ill fated grandsons and adopted sons of Augustus, Gaius &amp; Lucius, with a flan of nice silver and good surface.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]932002[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Augustus </b>27 BC-14 AD, AR Denarius</p><p><b>Mint:</b> Lugdunum (Lyon) 2 BC-4 AD</p><p><b>Obv:</b> CAESAR AVGVSTVS - DIVI F PATER PATRIAE, laureate head right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>AVGVSTI F COS DESIG PRINC IVVENT, Gaius and Lucius Caesar, each togate and standing facing, resting hand on shield, spear behind each shield, Simpulum on left facing right and lituus on right facing left in upper field</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RCV 1578</p><p><b>Note:</b> In 17BC Augustus adopted the two infant boys of his daughter Iulia and Agrippa, and thereby acquired his first legal heirs.&nbsp; Lucius died in 2 AD in Massalia, Gaul.&nbsp; Gaius died not long after in a Lycian town in 4 AD from wounds received in Armenia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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