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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2681878, member: 19463"]No new Nerva here and I'm not sure if I showed this FH or not. In any event I have a question.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC lists this twice on page 497 (Cyzicus) numbers 92 and 93A according to the headgear and beard. What do you see here? The choices are beard with bare head and no beard with pointed cap. Both are very common C2. There is 93 with cap but a rosette diadem obverse rated S but this is the common pearl diadem style. The question is, how many people care. Would you rather have a carce variation or a slightly nicer specimen of the common type. Do you feel any need to have all three or are you just not a flyspeck level student? Is the answer different if the subject is not a Falling Horseman but something 'better' in your book? Do you want all the Caesar elephant variations, the set of Augustus Gaius and Lucius shields and ladles or a hundred minor variations of something? Whichever answer - what drives you to this decision? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]599634[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2681878, member: 19463"]No new Nerva here and I'm not sure if I showed this FH or not. In any event I have a question. RIC lists this twice on page 497 (Cyzicus) numbers 92 and 93A according to the headgear and beard. What do you see here? The choices are beard with bare head and no beard with pointed cap. Both are very common C2. There is 93 with cap but a rosette diadem obverse rated S but this is the common pearl diadem style. The question is, how many people care. Would you rather have a carce variation or a slightly nicer specimen of the common type. Do you feel any need to have all three or are you just not a flyspeck level student? Is the answer different if the subject is not a Falling Horseman but something 'better' in your book? Do you want all the Caesar elephant variations, the set of Augustus Gaius and Lucius shields and ladles or a hundred minor variations of something? Whichever answer - what drives you to this decision? [ATTACH=full]599634[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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