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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8302641, member: 19463&quot;]Probably the most common but not the cheapest way to add Ops to the collection is the Alexandria mint denarius of Pertinax.&nbsp; These seem to be more common than the Rome mint coins but were only recognized as what they are about 30 years ago. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1469068[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Pertinax type is Reka Devnia 6 but we have no way of knowing if the six were all Rome mint, all Alexandria or a mixture.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure exactly where on the RD scale I would start using the term &#039;rare&#039;.&nbsp; Certainly 2 is more rare than 200 but there are quite a few types not in RD which strike me as a really good sign of rarity unless they attracted the attention of people handling the hoard before the report was done. The fact that there were no coins of Pescennius Niger in the report does suggest that some may have been pilfered when the hoard was being split to the museums.&nbsp;&nbsp; That brings up a question that I doubt has an answer.&nbsp; The RD hoard book only illustrated coin types not listed by Cohen so it is impossible to tell if a coin was there if it was in that group.&nbsp; I wonder if there is any reason to believe that any of those 77 coins still exist.&nbsp; What is the current status of the ~81k others.&nbsp; Melted?&nbsp; Museum basement?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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