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Message:: [QUOTE="Eduard, post: 2576041, member: 8959"]This is a coin I would like to get your opinions on. It is a Hostilianus Ant. in what I would consider to be very good (exceptional?) condition.Picked this up at a coin show about 3/4 years ago, and every time I look at it, like yesterday, I go, Wow! I'm intrigued by the exceptional condition of this coin. I do not 'grade' my romans. I just rank them: Wow!,  very nice, nice, Hmmm...,and Ugh!    5 'grades'.  Is this a Wow! coin as it comes to Hostilian Antoninianii?  The obverse legend is weakly struck and a bit difficult to read, but the rest seems to me to be 'as-struck' or very near to it. None of my other roman silver come close. It even has mint bloom which my awful pics just cannot capture. What do you guys think?  This is the correct attribution (I think): Hostilian. As Caesar, AD 250-251. AR Antoninianus. Rome mint. AD 251. Obv: Radiate and draped bust right Rev: Mars advancing right, holding spear and shield. RIC IV 176a.    [ATTACH=full]558193[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]558194[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]558195[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]