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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3551714, member: 56859&quot;]Very nice, [USER=99177]@Marsman[/USER]!&nbsp; I&#039;d love to have a Caligula someday-- something other than a bronze Vesta. </p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=101013]@Limes[/USER], that&#039;s an unusually nice COL NEM <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=82549]@gsimonel[/USER]-- an iconic coin and one that will surely bring fond memories of your grandmother.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My most costly Roman so far is a provincial:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/domitianagathodaemononhorse-rt-jpg.759269/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Alexandria. Domitian</b></p><p>Regnal year 10, CE 90/91</p><p>Æ diobol (25mm, 10.86 g, 12h)</p><p>Obv: AVT KAICAP ΔΟ ΜΙΤ CEB ΓΕΡΜ, laureate head right</p><p>Rev: Agathodaemon serpent, wearing the skhent crown (emblematic of upper and lower Egypt), on horseback galloping left; L I (date) below</p><p>Ref: Köln –; Dattari (Savio) –; K&amp;G 24.109; RPC II 2585; SNG Copenhagen 214; Emmett 277.10 (R5).</p><p><b>Provenance:</b></p><p><i>Ex Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection</i></p><p><i>Ex West Coast/Lloyd Beauchaine Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 41, 19 March 1997), lot 1110</i></p><p><i>Ex Classical Numismatic Review Vol. XVI, No. 1 (January 1991), lot 31</i></p><p><i>Ex Numismatic Fine Arts Fall Mail Bid Sale (18 October 1990), lot 2365</i></p><p><b>Appearances:</b></p><p>Staffieri, <i>Alexandria In Nummis</i> 39 (this coin)</p><p>Emmett, <i>Alexandrian Coins</i>; obverse illustrated as the header for the Domitian section, p. 24 (this coin) and fully illustrated on p. 26 as a featured (this coin)</p><p>Sear, <i>Roman Coins and Their Values, Vol. I</i>, #2868, p. 511 (this coin)</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-these-exist-snake-cowboys.314032/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-these-exist-snake-cowboys.314032/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/so-these-exist-snake-cowboys.314032/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/thegoodsnake-edited90msec-gif.759268/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you mean Imperial Roman, then this Nero sestertius is my most costly:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/neroannonaceressestertius-rt-jpg.778380/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Nero</b></p><p>struck in Rome, CE 63</p><p>Orichalcum sestertius, 34 mm, 26.7 gm</p><p>Obv: NERO CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP PP; laureate head right, wearing aegis</p><p>Rev: ANNONA AVGVSTI CERES; Ceres, veiled and draped, seated left, holding corn ears and torch, her feet on stool, facing Annona standing right, holding cornucopia; between them, modius on garlanded altar; in background, stern of ship</p><p>Ref: RIC 98. Cohen 24[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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