Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2052367, member: 19463&quot;]As Falling Horsemen go, it is a little junker.&nbsp; As the last of the Rome mint Horsemen, I am happy to have it.&nbsp; Dane of Wildwinds said there are 2200 variations on the type.&nbsp; Of them, I suspect half are available in FDC and most of the rest are at least a bit more presentable than this.&nbsp; Steve&#039;s example is a nice coin of a mint and date that allows nice coins.&nbsp; There are absolutely gorgeous Antioch mint AE2 coins that make my best look lame.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]377125[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]377126[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The only market for a coin like this Rome would be to those who have an AE2 with great detail and want to illustrate just how far down the hill they had gone in just a couple years.&nbsp; </p><p>Section 11 of the link below covers the replacement of coins like my two Antiochs with coins like my new example.</p><p><a href="http://www.tulane.edu/~august/handouts/601ccdoc.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tulane.edu/~august/handouts/601ccdoc.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.tulane.edu/~august/handouts/601ccdoc.htm</a></p><p>You might find other sections of this paper interesting especially if you are into how there came to be so many of these coins made and hidden away.&nbsp; The standard penalty for not cooperating is listed as death. If you buried the coins until the emperor changed, you might be able to profit.&nbsp; It was a risk many seemed to take.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in