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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2872835, member: 76194&quot;]With this beauty, I think I&#039;m done with Maximian. It&#039;s hard to improve on this portrait...might not even be worth trying.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]686953[/ATTACH]</p><p>Maximianus</p><p>AE Follis. Rome.</p><p>300-301 CE</p><p>8.86g, 28.15 mm</p><p>IMP C MAXIMIANVS PF AVG, laureate head right / SACRA MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NOSTR, Moneta standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae. Mintmark S-club. RIC VI Rome 100b; Sear 13292.</p><p>Note: Gloss black patina.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one fairly rare beauty with an S and Club of Hercules mint mark. I couldn&#039;t even find one on record with CNG, and very few images online. The dealer misatributed this coin to another mint, but I was able to find a sample (not as good) on wildwinds.com and went from there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tell me if this isn&#039;t a huge upgrade for me. Here is my other Maximian.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]686955[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Maximianus, First reign, 286-305. </b></p><p>AE Antoninianus</p><p>Lugdunum, 287-289.</p><p>IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Maximian to right.</p><p><i>Rev.</i> VIRTVTI AVGG Hercules standing right, strangling the Nemean lion; at his feet to left, club.</p><p>Lyon 213. RIC V, 454.</p><p><br /></p><p>You be the judge of that. I wasn&#039;t looking for another Moneta...but the portrait screamed &quot;Don&#039;t pass me up! Buy me!&quot; And you know what they say, when a coin calls out at you, it&#039;s foolish to pass on it. And hey, this Moneta reverse is not too shabby either.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think this is the type of coin that even if I wasn&#039;t a fan of LRBs I would have still been drawn to it and gotten it. In many ways it channels the beauty of earlier coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>PS: Here is the wildwinds example. </b>A very sharp portrait too if you ask me, though I think mine has slightly more attractive style (at least in my opinion).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]686956[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Let&#039;s see your sweet Maximians.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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