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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 3723322, member: 73165&quot;]<a href="http:// https://www.cointalk.com/threads/antoninus-pius-i-love-that-guy.277177/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http:// https://www.cointalk.com/threads/antoninus-pius-i-love-that-guy.277177/" rel="nofollow">Antoninus Pius? I love that guy!</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my favorite image from that thread, btw:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2016-9-12_11-50-48-png.536234/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Image credit: [USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Bingo!&nbsp; For me, that might be a holdover from being drawn to type collecting within US coins, but I love that his denarii are widely available in high grade (gVF+), enough so that one can usually afford to be picky about things like style and centering without worrying that another example won&#039;t come around soon enough.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Indeed.&nbsp; The Zodiac series is quite tough!&nbsp; Not only are there 12 of them (one for each sign of the Zodiac), but they are hard to find and moderately expensive.&nbsp; You&#039;re probably looking at between $1-2.5k apiece for decent specimens.</p><p><br /></p><p>A dealer once told me about a guy who spent 30 years putting the set together.&nbsp; Before the age of the internet, that&#039;s a lot of travelling to shows and contacting dealers, so I believe it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice!&nbsp; Here&#039;s mine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]998000[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ANTONINUS PIUS, </b>AR denarius, 18 mm, 3.01g</p><p><b>Obverse: </b>IMP CAES AEL ANTONINVS AVG, bare head right</p><p><b>Reverse: </b>PONT MAX TR POT COS, Diana standing right, holding bow and arrow.</p><p><b>Ref: </b>RIC III 1a</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Note:</b> Struck July 138 AD before the consecration of Hadrian. Only 2 examples in the Reka Devnia hoard. That&#039;s fewer than some types of Pertinax.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love this coin because it&#039;s from a common emperor, yet deceptively rare. I don&#039;t remember how much I paid for it, but it wasn&#039;t too expensive, either. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>If yours is a pre-&quot;Pius&quot; coin as augustus, then yours is also from July 138 AD.&nbsp; Neat to be able to date a Roman coin to within a few weeks, isn&#039;t it?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Many Roman emperors have &quot;Antoninus&quot; as part of their names.&nbsp; I see a lot of coins misattributed on eBay because of this.&nbsp; Yours looks like Commodus to me, but possibly Marcus Aurelius is a possibility, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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