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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3494445, member: 87809&quot;]<a href="http://@Orange Julius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://@Orange Julius" rel="nofollow">@Orange Julius</a>&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Bravo, nicely said! Just imagine the places this coin must have been carried to maybe as a pendant....&nbsp; as a memento for a soldier who had fought the Parthians? Or the loved one of a dead soldier? </p><p><br /></p><p>Have also a Cistophorus with a hole that my dad bought in the late sixties for £ 50. He collected coins that he liked, particularly of Augustus. And I collect them to continue his legacy, not for their possible resale value. When I buy a coin I always think, would he have liked it?</p><p><br /></p><p>Just to share this information, when I was trying to attribute this Cistophorus I came across one, also RIC 476 and also with a hole. It was sold for $480, which means that even with a hole there are collectors that like to have it, while others certainly think it is a waste of money - my mom also said that, &quot;what a waste of money&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie15" alt=":arghh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />:</p><p><br /></p><p>25 mm, 11.35 g;</p><p>Ionia, Ephesus, 28 BC</p><p>RIC 476</p><p>Obv.: IMP•CAESAR•DIVI•F•COS•VI•LIBERTATIS•P•R• VINDEX• laureate head r.</p><p>Rev.: PAX in left field; Pax, draped, standing l. on parazonium, holding caduceus in r. hand; in right field, a snake emerging from cista mystica. All within laurel wreath.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]925405[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]925406[/ATTACH]</p><p>Who might have used it, when and why? Just imagine...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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