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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2318395, member: 19463"]If I understand the question correctly: Caesar used several mints including a mint that traveled with him. His coins were paid to soldiers who would have scattered them wherever they were sent next so the coins made in Rome might have traveled to Spain or Africa as well as those from Spain or Africa could have traveled to Rome or a hundred other places before the last of them were buried for us to find. Add to that the posthumous coins issued by Octavian or Antony and the soldiers of theirs that once fought for Caesar and you could find the things anywhere. </p><p><br /></p><p>I got a great chuckle out of the coin below currently up for sale online which is quite possibly the worst of its type. I can not dispute or prove that claim. It is what it is. Still, it would not be my worst coin (close, though). I'm not bidding but I would like to know the realization. </p><p><img src="http://www.fsrcoin.com/g_html_m43da5b40.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://www.fsrcoin.com/g_html_m53a9b294.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2318395, member: 19463"]If I understand the question correctly: Caesar used several mints including a mint that traveled with him. His coins were paid to soldiers who would have scattered them wherever they were sent next so the coins made in Rome might have traveled to Spain or Africa as well as those from Spain or Africa could have traveled to Rome or a hundred other places before the last of them were buried for us to find. Add to that the posthumous coins issued by Octavian or Antony and the soldiers of theirs that once fought for Caesar and you could find the things anywhere. I got a great chuckle out of the coin below currently up for sale online which is quite possibly the worst of its type. I can not dispute or prove that claim. It is what it is. Still, it would not be my worst coin (close, though). I'm not bidding but I would like to know the realization. [IMG]http://www.fsrcoin.com/g_html_m43da5b40.png[/IMG][IMG]http://www.fsrcoin.com/g_html_m53a9b294.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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