My second rare flavian

Same here. If I'm away from home and need a reference, I always search Forum's gallery to see if one is listed. I can usually find what I'm looking for in David, Andrew or Alberto's gallery and I can be sure the attribution is correct.

 

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I hope you could tell I was kidding. I RIC my coins like everyone else

Rasiel

 

Thanks! Yeah I found it on your forum-page. Do you know what happened to the obverse on your piece?

 

@Clavdivs Thanks!
@Bing Really nice variation you have too!
@Jay GT4 Cool nevertheless! And yeah it doesn't seem too rare when people can show one.
@Orfew Nice, yours is even better than mine!
@Parthicus Maximus Thank you!

 

Please do not let that fool you. There are 4 examples on Forum. 3 of those are the examples posted on this thread.The other one belongs to Alberto; another Flavian specialist.

 

Correct seeing so many examples posted on this thread can easily fool you as you say. But no I don't think those are easy to find.

 

The ravages of two millennia.

 

I appreciate any effort made to explain to those of us who are not Domitian specialists (am I the only one who does not consider him most interesting?) why a certain rare coin is of interest other than the fact that there are relatively fewer of them known. I do find a bit of added interest in any DES coin but no enough to want all the date varieties even in a series I consider a specialty. It is nice to know what makes one number better than any random other from what seems to the non-specialist a "just another" of a very long series.

I own Cohen and got a lot of good from it back in 'the day' but I was more interested in what existed than in having a catalog number. I appreciate the ease of use of the alphabetical system but never understood the wisdom of ignoring things like mintmarks lacking even notes like "this type was issued by 12 mints with many minor variations." My use of Cohen was reduced when I bought BMC but BMC always bothered me by promoting the idea that coins after their end date were inferior and not worth collecting. A continuation of BMC would have been at least 12 more books. Neither has every coin; no book does. Both have their place in the hobby but neither is indispensable. Cohen should be cheap since it follows the unpopular alphabetical arrangement and exists in old hardbound and more recent paperback reprints.