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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 3973543, member: 80783&quot;]Thank you all for your votes and comments!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>With the Nerva I could afford to go for the best portrait available (same applies to Maximus, Lucilla and Julia Soaemias ), while with a Sestertius of Gordian II one always has to make compromises. </p><p>I found mine the most interesting affordable specimen on the market in terms of pedigree, rarity, and it´s being the Banti plate coin so I went for it. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes. He is a great guy also sees little details that others don´t see. But it is becoming more and more of a hassle to send the coins back and forth over the Atlantic due to the slow international mail and customs complications. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, mine too actually (the coins are not listed in order of my preference). I am working on another article tracing the step by step evolution of an official roman Aureus design into this type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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