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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3543132, member: 84744&quot;]OK, I take it back. Martin said (in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/septimius-small-flan-denarii.325344/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/septimius-small-flan-denarii.325344/">this thread</a>) that coins dating from 195-7 were often dumpy and I had remembered this as &quot;early Rome&quot; in my non-specialist brain.&nbsp; I stand corrected that the earli<i>est</i> Rome coins are not typically dumpy, just the earli<i>esh</i> coins from slightly after that. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure if your general contrariness with the thread includes my enjoyment of what I called &quot;naturalistic portraits.&quot;&nbsp; Myself I don&#039;t disagree with anything you said, and I certainly didn&#039;t mean to denigrate other styles (which I also like!).&nbsp; By &quot;naturalistic&quot; I didn&#039;t mean &quot;accurate&quot; - just &quot;lifelike&quot; in the sense that some portrait styles look more like a real person than others.&nbsp; They can be naturalistic in this sense without looking like the person they portray.&nbsp; (Maybe I&#039;ll start a thread on this topic.)</p><p><br /></p><p>From your 10 coins just above, I really like the styles of #3, 4, 7, and 8, but would say that only #7 is naturalistic.&nbsp; And of course I agree that &quot;good style&quot; is far from the only reason to include a coin in one&#039;s collection!</p><p><br /></p><p>Some other Sep Sevs of mine that I enjoy very much:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]941959[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]941960[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]941961[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/screen-shot-2019-04-12-at-9-06-38-pm-jpg.920965/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I share your annoyance with the Gasvoda market-talk email, btw.&nbsp; Definitely made me cranky. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":grumpy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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