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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 4484586, member: 87809&quot;]So many awesome and many rare coins are shown and discussed by experts in the Ancient Coin Forum that I am always very shy to show my latest<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie82" alt=":shy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />, given that I collect coins that are within my budget and I love to have just because ....no rationale there. Of course there are some very valuable or rare ones that I would love to have but....Anyway, these are my two latest that arrived in mid-April and made me very happy:</p><p><br /></p><p>I know it has porosity, there is much detail lost on the obverse in Augustus &amp; Livia&#039;s faces, and the metal shines through, but it was exactly this last and the ghostly appearance of their faces that made me want this coin, and I also like the stag on the reverse, what can I say <span style="color: #00ff00">¯\_(ツ)_/¯</span></p><p><br /></p><p>Æ Chalkous, Ionia, Ephesus 27 BC - 14 AD, </p><p>Archireus Asklas (magistrate =Archireus) and Pammenes (no title), </p><p>8.03 g, 21 mm</p><p>RPC I 2589; Karwiese 41, (Die Münzprägung von Ephesos, Vol. 5, 41); Copenhagen 361</p><p>Ob.: Conjoined busts of Augustus, laureate, and Livia to right</p><p>Rev.: ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ /&nbsp; ΑΣΚΛΑΣ / ΠΑΜΜΕΝΗΣ, Ε-ΦΕ;&nbsp; stag standing, r.; above, quiver</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1113481[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1113482[/ATTACH]</p><p>I lost another one I wanted very much being not fast enough to increase my bid; so I bid on this one, which I also had been eyeing, and won:</p><p><br /></p><p>Æ Dupondius, Rome, 86 AD</p><p>11.25 g, 28.5 mm</p><p>RIC II 484; BN III, 295, 414; Cohen 648.</p><p>Obv.: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XII CENS PER P P radiate bust to right wearing aegis</p><p>Rev.: VIRTVTI AVGVSTI Virtus wearing long dress, standing right, foot on helmet, holding spear with her r. hand and parazonium with her l. hand; S C </p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1113484[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1113485[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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