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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3828451, member: 99456&quot;]Very late seeing this thread.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is a comment by Francesco Gnecchi in a translated book published by Spink 1903 captures my thinking on the subject of &quot;how low&quot;:</p><p><i><i><br /></i></i></p><p><i><i>&quot;The first collectors did not lay much stress on the state of preservation of their specimens, to which in the present day, very great, and I might say excessive importance, is attached.&quot;</i></i></p><p><br /></p><p>from <b>Roman Coins</b>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924029779877/page/n5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/cu31924029779877/page/n5" rel="nofollow">Elementary Manual</a> by Francesco Gnecchi, translated by Alfred Watson Hands, Spink, 1903</p><p><br /></p><p>Although I am always happy to have a very well struck, well preserved coin, I am also pleased to own a coin like this one, in any condition, for <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-denarius-of-mark-antony-lepidus.339634/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-denarius-of-mark-antony-lepidus.339634/">its history</a> and connection to the rise of Octavian/Augustus and the days before the second triumvirate.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1018046[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Mark Antony and M Aemelius Lepidus</b>, 43 BC, AR Denarius</p><p><b>Mint:</b> Military mint traveling with Antony and Lepidus in Cisalpine Gaul</p><p><b>Date: </b>Crawford dates this issue between 30-May-43 and early 42</p><p><b>Obv:</b> M ANTON [IMP], lituus, capis, and raven</p><p><b>Rev: </b>M LEPID IMP, simpulum, aspergillum, securis, apex</p><p><b>Size: </b>3.71g, 18mm</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Crawford 489/2; Sydenham 1156; RSC 2</p><p><br /></p><p>or <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-ugly-barbarous-radiate.329451/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-ugly-barbarous-radiate.329451/">ugly coins</a> like this barbarous one </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1018048[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Obv:</b> IMP TETRICVS, crude radiate bust right.</p><p><b>Rev:</b> P X AC, Pax standing left, holding branch and sceptre (or cornucopia?)</p><p>2.8 g, 19 mm[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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