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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Silverlock, post: 3621765, member: 98181&quot;]Ugh. No statement sends a chill down a collector’s spine like that one. You can’t win. You don’t want to sound mercenary and say, “spend this much and buy me this one”. But if you leave it up to a non-collector, the chance of getting a bad coin in bad condition at a bad price is high.</p><p><br /></p><p>This year I stumbled on a fool-proof solution. I pointed my wife to VCoins and MA-Shops and explained I wanted a coin depicting Anna Perenna. The coin was thematic with a birthday, which was important to her: Anna is the goddess of a happy and healthy year. </p><p><br /></p><p>What I didn’t say was that there were only a handful of them on both sites, in a wide range of prices, and, most importantly, I would be happy to add any one of them to my collection. This gave her the satisfaction of choosing which coin would be my surprise gift, and I didn’t have to practice faking surprised delight in the mirror.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one she picked out was this, and I am very pleased with it,</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]970960[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>L.Fabius L.f.Hispaniensis</p><p>AR Denarius </p><p>82 BC </p><p>Army Mint in northern Italy. </p><p>Obv: C ANNI T F TN PRO COS EX SC. Draped female bust n.r. (the ancient Roman spring goddess Anna Perenna), in front of it Libra, behind Caduceus. </p><p>Rev: Victoria in Quadriga n.r., above Q, in section L FABI L F HISP.</p><p>3.90 g</p><p>Ex Dr. Busso Peus 419, 408 3.90 g</p><p>Ref: Cr. 366/1, Sear 289, Syd. 748, Albert 1247. Ex. Busso Peus 419, 408</p><p><br /></p><p>That people asked Anna Perenna to bestow as many more years to them as they could drink cups of wine at the celebration was, I assured her, purely coincidental. My birthday party was a bit of a blur, but I predict a long life ahead.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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