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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3542897, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with very little said in this entire thread.&nbsp; It comes at the same time as the Glasvoda note posted by Ken Dorney which IMHO is attempting to promote day trading in the hobby.&nbsp; The old saying is beauty is in the eye of the beholder.&nbsp; I find beauty in places others do not including Martin whose collecting interests are closer to mine tan anyone else here.&nbsp; I do not accept the standard view that all portraits of George Washington must be judged by how accurately they simulate the Gilbert Stuart.&nbsp; There are certainly better and lesser dies in any group but I can not dismiss Emesa as poor because it is not like the Roman.&nbsp; I rather like the Alexandrian style, too, but like Martin, I do not collect these because I like the style.&nbsp; I do feel we need to study and represent in our collections the good and the bad dies as well as the coins that simply do not come in high grade. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is not an early coin by my definition.&nbsp; There are many, many 193 AD coins.&nbsp; Relatively few of them are on really dumpy flans. There are more &#039;different&#039; 193 portraits from Rome than the rest of the reign.&nbsp; None of them look like the later standard but I don&#039;t see them as better or defective.&nbsp; They are what they are and I collect them. These ten coins are all from Rome and all 193.&nbsp; Some are obviously earlier, show better craftsmanship or have more beauty in a 2019 sense.&nbsp; I have no idea which captures Septimius most accurately since all we have are other artists&#039; ideas.&nbsp; These are by now means the best or the worst or even representative. They are just evidence. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]941883[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]941884[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]941885[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]941886[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]941887[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]941888[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]941889[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]941892[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]941895[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]941899[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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