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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2529751, member: 19463"]You know how very much I love to hear others share this opinion! I even have a similar upgrade challenge coin which I saw offered for a high price but decided I did not need to own both.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back to Fonteius: I am not thrilled by variations like whether the CF (son of Gaius) fit on one side of the die or had to push over onto the other. Die variations are for specialists. I'm not one when it comes to Fonteius goats. I like all variations equally in this case.</p><p><br /></p><p>We sometimes refer to Roman Republican coins as the 'Family' coins because they were issued by big name Roman families. Some families only had one representative moneyer while others had several. While I might change my mind several times if I thought about it more I might have other candidates but the Fonteia family has several type I like issued by more than one member of the family. Here are some. Bing has a nicer one of the last. Have I missed other important ones?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]540487[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]540488[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]540519[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2529751, member: 19463"]You know how very much I love to hear others share this opinion! I even have a similar upgrade challenge coin which I saw offered for a high price but decided I did not need to own both. Back to Fonteius: I am not thrilled by variations like whether the CF (son of Gaius) fit on one side of the die or had to push over onto the other. Die variations are for specialists. I'm not one when it comes to Fonteius goats. I like all variations equally in this case. We sometimes refer to Roman Republican coins as the 'Family' coins because they were issued by big name Roman families. Some families only had one representative moneyer while others had several. While I might change my mind several times if I thought about it more I might have other candidates but the Fonteia family has several type I like issued by more than one member of the family. Here are some. Bing has a nicer one of the last. Have I missed other important ones? [ATTACH=full]540487[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]540488[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]540519[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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