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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3221878, member: 19463&quot;]Friday I spent over 9 hours in a vanpool bus so I could spend 5 hours at the Baltimore coin show.&nbsp; It was a miserable rainy day but the show made it all worthwhile.&nbsp; I returned with 11 coins of which one has already been consigned to my trade stock.&nbsp; Of the ten, I have trouble assigning rank but this one is a strong candidate for the top.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]838962[/ATTACH] </p><p>I always wanted this dupondius of Germanicus but nice ones are always out of my price bracket.&nbsp; Corroded ones are common and ugly.&nbsp; inding one in the middle has been difficult.&nbsp; This one has several faults that will bother some more than others but the one I want to discuss is the number 47 painted on the obverse.&nbsp; I am sure I could remove it but I won&#039;t.&nbsp; There was a time when political correctness allowed many things that are considered evil today.&nbsp; One of these seems trivial now but may keep some people from enjoying the coin.&nbsp; Many paint numbered coins were part of small museum collections but I am sure there were others belonging to individuals.&nbsp; I would love to know who painted 47 on this coin.&nbsp; What college, what museum what gentleman of a century ago did this?&nbsp; What was coin 46 and how many other numbers were there?&nbsp; How many still bear their numbers?&nbsp; Was it a hoard or a collection?&nbsp; I have been in the hobby for fifty years and do not recall knowing anyone who thought this was an acceptable practice. Was this done in 1950 or 1850?&nbsp;&nbsp; Comments welcome.&nbsp; I am sure some of you have coins of this type honoring the return of two of the standards lost to the Germans by Varus at the Teutoberg Forest.&nbsp; The coins were issued by Germanicus&#039; son Caligula long after the event.&nbsp; Rome might have been a different place had Germanicus lived to succeed Tiberius rather than Caligula.&nbsp; We can never know.&nbsp; Post any coins you have with numbers of this type.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My other one is 18&nbsp; or 81 in red paint on a Republican fourree.&nbsp; I know no more about it than the new coin.&nbsp; They are obviously different collections.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]838974[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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