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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3512084, member: 19463&quot;]As I drove to the local coin show today I passed under an overhead road sign that read &quot;May the Fourth be with you. Drive Safely.&quot; May 4th has been serving me as my birthday for quite a number of years before the joke was originated and I found it interesting that the State Highway Department joined in wishing me luck at the show.&nbsp; It was quite kind of the Richmond Coin Club to schedule to show just as a present for me and my wife told me to go buy myself a present.&nbsp; Who am I to argue with the State, the club and my wife of 49 years, 11 months.&nbsp; It would have just been wrong NOT to have a good show.&nbsp; I stopped first at a dealer I believed would be most likely cooperate by having something I wanted and left all my budget with him to the point that I only paid social visits with three other dealers of ancients in attendance. </p><p><br /></p><p>I know I am the only one here who has any interest i collecting the coins that interest me.&nbsp; My favorite of the new coins purchased today will be appreciated by few here.&nbsp; The seller had denarii of Otho for the same price and a Didius Julianus for twice as much.&nbsp; He even had a very low grade $500 bronze of Licinius I and II together (I believe one of you has one but they are not seen just every day).&nbsp; What cam home with me is another low grade, well scratched and porous denarius of Pescennius Niger.&nbsp; In other words, I got a coin that fits my personality.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]931543[/ATTACH] </p><p>What made this coin appealing to me was Minerva holding a small owl rather than the more common Nike.&nbsp; This was particularly appropriate for me because I also own a Septimius Severus (&#039;Emesa&#039; mint) denarius with owl.&nbsp; So far I have not found a match for either in the usual places. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]931546[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Unlisted coins of Pescennius Niger are probably more common than coins that are completely matched in standard references.&nbsp; Obverse legend &#039;errors&#039; abound in the series.&nbsp; Of course the poor condition of so many of his coins makes it hard to be certain exactly what the die cutter intended to engrave.&nbsp; This Pescennius is a variation of the 193 AD legend lacking COSII which is found on Antioch coins of 194 AD. </p><p><br /></p><p>Will I get any pile on participation here if I ask for coins dateable to 193 AD only (not just any coin of a ruler that was alive in 193 but one issued in that year)?&nbsp; How about Roman coins with Minerva holding an owl other than Domitian who is known for more different Minerva variations than the rest of the empire combined.&nbsp; Perhaps some will have examples of one ruler copying a type also used by his defeated adversary???&nbsp;&nbsp; Finally, whose else went to a coin show today and came home with something new (to you)? </p><p><br /></p><p>This was my birthday present to my self but the show provided a few other new coins which I fully expect to be a lot more popular here than this one.&nbsp; They won&#039;t be posted today since today is over in a minute or two. Happy Cinco de Mayo.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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