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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3613711, member: 19463"]I have an opinion on everything but I don't expect any to be majority opinions. On this, I prefer posts that either ask a question or provide information of potential interest in general. On Mithradates II, for example, mention culd have been made of the fact that not all his coins have the same style portrait and a suggestion could be made for others to show coins, perhaps, illustrating this or coins that have been reclassified since Sellwood or coins of a mint other than the one shown orrrrr anything beyond 'here it is'. Finn posted what I would consider a good first post:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>To this, I would have posted my favorite M II drachm and commented that his coin had a particularly strong torq (as does Sulla's coin and yours). My torq coin has been shown here so many times that anyone who cares probably has it memorized. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]967908[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Below is a very different Mithradates II which was sold to me as overstruck on a Roman Republican denarius. I see noise in the fields but do not recognize the undertype if there is one. I bought it during my first Parthian interest phase. Now I am finishing up on my third phase caused by buying the Sunrise Collection book when it went on sale recently. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]967909[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I am unresponsive to posts giving nothing more than a dozen catalog numbers and rarely provide numbers on my posts. My experience suggests numbers will be copied by some people even though their coin is completely different. People who want catalog numbers for my coins can look them up. (I believe the second one is Sellwood 28.3. I wuld like to hear if I'm wrong but I would really rather hear if anyone recognizes the undertype.) Online resources can be used by those with no library. Sellwood and Shore are both expensive in the used market so careful lifting of ID's from CNG sales strikes me as OK unless you are planning to be a Parthian specialist. I don't know enough about Parthian to be dangerous and half of what I learned reading Sellwood and Shore seems to have been changed. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps I should have just shut up and posted a +1 to TIF's post that says what I intended to say here but is very much more succinctly crafted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3613711, member: 19463"]I have an opinion on everything but I don't expect any to be majority opinions. On this, I prefer posts that either ask a question or provide information of potential interest in general. On Mithradates II, for example, mention culd have been made of the fact that not all his coins have the same style portrait and a suggestion could be made for others to show coins, perhaps, illustrating this or coins that have been reclassified since Sellwood or coins of a mint other than the one shown orrrrr anything beyond 'here it is'. Finn posted what I would consider a good first post: To this, I would have posted my favorite M II drachm and commented that his coin had a particularly strong torq (as does Sulla's coin and yours). My torq coin has been shown here so many times that anyone who cares probably has it memorized. [ATTACH=full]967908[/ATTACH] Below is a very different Mithradates II which was sold to me as overstruck on a Roman Republican denarius. I see noise in the fields but do not recognize the undertype if there is one. I bought it during my first Parthian interest phase. Now I am finishing up on my third phase caused by buying the Sunrise Collection book when it went on sale recently. [ATTACH=full]967909[/ATTACH] I am unresponsive to posts giving nothing more than a dozen catalog numbers and rarely provide numbers on my posts. My experience suggests numbers will be copied by some people even though their coin is completely different. People who want catalog numbers for my coins can look them up. (I believe the second one is Sellwood 28.3. I wuld like to hear if I'm wrong but I would really rather hear if anyone recognizes the undertype.) Online resources can be used by those with no library. Sellwood and Shore are both expensive in the used market so careful lifting of ID's from CNG sales strikes me as OK unless you are planning to be a Parthian specialist. I don't know enough about Parthian to be dangerous and half of what I learned reading Sellwood and Shore seems to have been changed. Perhaps I should have just shut up and posted a +1 to TIF's post that says what I intended to say here but is very much more succinctly crafted.[/QUOTE]
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