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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2228715, member: 19463&quot;]Today&#039;s offering of new photos are the three coins I retained when I sold my collection in 1974.&nbsp; In a fit of poverty I sent all my coins to Joel Malter flagging these three that I thought should be worth a premium.&nbsp; He returned them saying they were in no way special and would add little or nothing to the offer.&nbsp; I photographed a group of coins in 1964 and all three were in the photo. </p><p><br /></p><p>First is &#039;My Favorite Coin&#039; which I have written up several times so I&#039;ll just give the link here if anyone cares to read it.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f01.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f01.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f01.html</a></p><p>This coin has darkened over the years but has not been cleaned for at least the 50+ years I have owned it. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]437856[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The second is a real junker but also a COSI die that I thought was special then.&nbsp; I do not know exactly when in the 1958-63 span I got it but I suspect it was one of the denarii I pulled from a $2 silver junk box in a shop of an elderly dealer in Indianapolis.&nbsp; Many of my high school period coins came from there.&nbsp; I still have not upgraded this coin with another with the cross supports under the chair on the reverse.&nbsp; This coin was ugly and dark 50 years ago and is not getting better. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]437858[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Last is a Domna denarius which was my first ever &#039;technical&#039; coin. I see a face peering out of her head looking to the upper right suggesting the coin was overstruck on an earlier denarius.&nbsp; While I can not ID the undertype, the face strikes me as more likely Commodus than anyone els.&nbsp; I really wish it were Pescennius Niger but the nose is all wrong.&nbsp; The Domna portrait is early and looks a bit more like Manlia Scantilla than normal.&nbsp; I have not seen a die match to this coin either but would love to find one.&nbsp; I do not recall the circumstances of its purchase but know I had it when I took the photo for that term paper in 1964.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]437857[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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