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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4141087, member: 96898"]That's a phenomenal example!</p><p><br /></p><p>Below are two of my VOTA coins of Constantine with a MAX legend. Both are <u>much</u> worse than yours. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1070953[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Constantine I, Roman Empire, AE 3, 321 AD, Aquileia mint. Obv: CONSTANTINVS AVG, head of Constantine I, laureate, r. Rev: D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG; VOT/XX within a laurel wreath; in exergue, .AQP. 19mm, 2.68g. Ref: RIC VII Aquileia 85.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]1070952[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Constantine I, Roman Empire, AE3, 327–329 AD, Heraclea mint. Obv: CONSTANTINVS AVG; head of Constantine, diademed, r., looking upward. Rev: D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG; “VOT/XXX” within a laurel wreath. 19mm, 3.20g. Ref: RIC VII Heraclea 92.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>I bought these some years ago when I was beginning to collect and naively thought that "uncleaned" lots might yield great coins. After finding more barely identifiable fallen horsemen and standing soldiers than I have counted, I figured out that I had paid for a numismatic education, not a collection. Most of the coins from that time had to go, but I kept a couple of better ones, including the two above, as a reminder of those days.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 4141087, member: 96898"]That's a phenomenal example! Below are two of my VOTA coins of Constantine with a MAX legend. Both are [U]much[/U] worse than yours. [ATTACH=full]1070953[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Constantine I, Roman Empire, AE 3, 321 AD, Aquileia mint. Obv: CONSTANTINVS AVG, head of Constantine I, laureate, r. Rev: D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG; VOT/XX within a laurel wreath; in exergue, .AQP. 19mm, 2.68g. Ref: RIC VII Aquileia 85. [ATTACH=full]1070952[/ATTACH] Constantine I, Roman Empire, AE3, 327–329 AD, Heraclea mint. Obv: CONSTANTINVS AVG; head of Constantine, diademed, r., looking upward. Rev: D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG; “VOT/XXX” within a laurel wreath. 19mm, 3.20g. Ref: RIC VII Heraclea 92.[/SIZE] I bought these some years ago when I was beginning to collect and naively thought that "uncleaned" lots might yield great coins. After finding more barely identifiable fallen horsemen and standing soldiers than I have counted, I figured out that I had paid for a numismatic education, not a collection. Most of the coins from that time had to go, but I kept a couple of better ones, including the two above, as a reminder of those days.[/QUOTE]
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