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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5390342, member: 19463&quot;]I assume your package spending time in DC means you don&#039;t live near there.&nbsp; I mailed one 140 miles from VA to MD that went 400 miles out of its way to vacation in Columbus, Ohio.&nbsp; I guess this is our new hub system in operation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I do impulse purchases with about half being regrets and half being OK.&nbsp; I hope you will be happy with the coin in the long run but it is always good to explain what it was that made you select this one over a thousand other Provincials: Domitian, Artemis, torch AE20?&nbsp; When you get to the point that you have a hundred Provincials, it might be easier to say what was different or what made it fit your needs.&nbsp; My first Provincial came in 1987.&nbsp; Before that I had quite a few coins of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna but all were Imperials so this one seemed to fit in.&nbsp; It was quite a few years later before I caught the Provincial bug in earnest but I still like this one.&nbsp; Technically, it is a Colonial using Latin language.&nbsp; </p><p>Julia Domna, Antioch, Pisidia, AE22,&nbsp; from a Frank Robinson sale for $13.25.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1231682[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Over two years later, I added the matching Septimius (still no Greek Provincial!).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1231697[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There is no explaining having only two coins of a genre and them matching so closely so later that year I broke into the Greek language Provincials with my first Alexandrian, an AE35 drachm of Hadrian.&nbsp; After that Provincials became a much larger part of my hobby.&nbsp; Perhaps I should warn that they have a way of doing that.&nbsp; Once you let one into the collection, it is all downhill. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; You have been warned. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1231706[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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