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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6426154, member: 110350&quot;]Talk about impulse buying: I was so captivated by the examples in this thread of the Nero/Temple of Janus types that I went ahead and ordered one myself last night.&nbsp; Obviously I haven&#039;t received it yet, and I don&#039;t ordinarily risk jinxing things by posting coins I don&#039;t yet have, but I might as well do so while the topic is current:</p><p><br /></p><p>Nero, AE As, 65 AD Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate head right, NERO CAESAR • AVG • GERM IMP / Rev. Temple of Janus with closed double doors on right, garland hanging above doors, latticed windows and wall to left, PACE P R VBIQ PARTA IANVM CLVSIT, S|C across fields. RIC I Nero 306, BMCRE 227, Sear RCV I 1974 (ill.), Cohen 171. 27 mm., 9.61 g., 7 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1254196[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I hesitated for a little while to buy it because &quot;NERO&quot; is off the flan, but I decided that his portrait is sufficiently recognizable that the absence of his name wasn&#039;t a deal-breaker for me. In fact, I really like the portrait. (Hopefully it&#039;s not tooled; it looks OK to me, not that I&#039;m very experienced with evaluating these kinds of AE coins.)</p><p><br /></p><p>But here&#039;s my question: what in the world is going on with the left side of the Temple? Instead of the bricks in the wall I see on other examples, it looks like someone shoved a few misshapen boulders in there![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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