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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3799317, member: 72790&quot;]I must admit to a certain perversity in arranging coins in my collection. For those historical figures who were mortal enemies in their lifetimes and hardly got along with each other, I have paired them in my collection so that, however they felt about propinquity in their lifetimes, in my collection they are with each other in a kind of long term numismatic limbo. Only with my passing and the dissolution of my collection will their spirits be released to reside with someone perhaps more congenial.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have any number of such wickedly delicious parings and I thought it might be fun (perversely) to see what couplings we could duplicate here. As readers can see I have put side to side two denarii, one of a triumphant Caesar Augustus with a still hopeful Mark Antony who of course would battle it out for supremacy of the incipient Roman Imperium much to the detriment of Mark Antony, who you can see is about to have his reverse image butted by Caesar&#039;s &quot;gotcha&quot; bull. Perhaps members might be able to duplicate such pairings from their own collections, say a drachma of Alexander the Great with a siglos of Darius III, a denarius of Julius Caesar with one of Brutus, or maybe even a kind of trifecta with coins of Galba, Vitellius and Otho in a numismatic triptych. Maybe a Byzantine emperor with his Persian adversary. Or extending it to the Middle Ages, a coin of Saladin and one of Richard the Lion Heart. One could even take this to more modern times such as a coin of President George Washington with one of King George III or even&nbsp; paper currency, say American Civil War notes, one with Abraham Lincoln and another of Jeff Davis. I don&#039;t want to name many more as that would spoil the fun of readers rummaging through their memories, and collections, for similar matchings. So let&#039;s see who you might have and his (or her) nemesis to be honored by being brought together again on this site.[ATTACH=full]1014630[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1014631[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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