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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8283467, member: 26430&quot;]That is an attractive Titus from Antioch. Big Bronze can still look good even nearly smooth.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will definitely go to smooth. I distinguish between my &quot;collection coins&quot; and my &quot;accumulation coins&quot; (or &quot;piles&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p>For &quot;Collection Coins,&quot; it has to have some redeeming features. I&#039;m much more forgiving with large Roman Provincials, especially if they&#039;ve been part of the numismatic literature. I&#039;ve bid on a number of nearly-smooth Dattari Collection Alexandrian Drachms, but haven&#039;t won one yet</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a recent XL Gordian III, not quite a medallion, but a <i>Großbronze</i> (as the Germans call them) from Tarsus, and Lindgren Collection plate coin, that&#039;s pretty worn (though not smooth). It helped that, at ~34g, it was heavier (usually considerably so) than 26 of the 27 specimens cited in RPC:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1463172[/ATTACH] </p><blockquote><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Roman Provincial. Cilicia, Tarsus. Gordian III (Augustus, 238-244 CE). Æ Großbronze </b>(36mm, 33.94 g, 6h).</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Obv</b>: ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ϹƐΒ, Π Π. Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind, holding spear and shield decorated with gorgoneion.</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Rev</b>: ΤΑΡϹΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛƐ, Α Μ Κ Β Γ. Gordian, laureate and in military dress, on horseback right, spearing lion running right below.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Ref</b>: <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3457" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/3457" rel="nofollow">RPC VII.2 Online 3457</a> (for type); Lindgren &amp; Kovacs 1635 (<i>this coin illustrated</i>).</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Prov</b>: Ex CNG e-Auction 509 (9 Feb 22), Lot 360; MDA Collection, acq. 14 Aug 2000; Henry Clay Lindgren Collection (before 1985, published in Lindgren &amp; Kovacs, <i>Ancient Bronze Coinage of Asia Minor and the Levant</i>)</font>.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Among my &quot;accumulation coins,&quot; I have many piles of virtually smooth &quot;jumbo junkers,&quot; mostly Romans and Byzantines that came in big groups or collections. I don&#039;t know what the previous owner did to the surfaces (lacquer or Ren Wax?), but despite appearances, they&#039;re not wet!</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]PO47MDIKmtk[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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