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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4624457, member: 19463"]My Caesar offering (as usual a repeat since most of my coins have been shown here over the last decade) is a fourree issued by Octavian when he was still making sure everyone accepted him as heir to Caesar and, therefore, the man in charge. The reverse was a simple text M AGRIPPA COS DESIG showing that Octavian not only had good taste when picking a father but was smart enough to associate with the greatest general of the day. Had everything gone well, Agrippa would have been the second emperor. Exactly what would have happened after that will never be known but it sems likely that the names of two of his descendants (Caligula and Nero) might have come up anyway so all Rome would have gained might have been to be spared Tiberius. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1144639[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Believe it or not, my coin is NOT the worst one of these I have seen. Somewhere out there is a solid denarius with portraits so poorly struck that this coin might be graded 'EF for these'. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I like fourrees. They allow me to have coins like this that would never come to little old me otherwise. When it comes to being called ugly, this coin is highly qualified. ex. Colosseum Coin 1989.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4624457, member: 19463"]My Caesar offering (as usual a repeat since most of my coins have been shown here over the last decade) is a fourree issued by Octavian when he was still making sure everyone accepted him as heir to Caesar and, therefore, the man in charge. The reverse was a simple text M AGRIPPA COS DESIG showing that Octavian not only had good taste when picking a father but was smart enough to associate with the greatest general of the day. Had everything gone well, Agrippa would have been the second emperor. Exactly what would have happened after that will never be known but it sems likely that the names of two of his descendants (Caligula and Nero) might have come up anyway so all Rome would have gained might have been to be spared Tiberius. [ATTACH=full]1144639[/ATTACH] Believe it or not, my coin is NOT the worst one of these I have seen. Somewhere out there is a solid denarius with portraits so poorly struck that this coin might be graded 'EF for these'. :shame: I like fourrees. They allow me to have coins like this that would never come to little old me otherwise. When it comes to being called ugly, this coin is highly qualified. ex. Colosseum Coin 1989.[/QUOTE]
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