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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4982480, member: 19463"]I do not see having hundreds of coins of Probus to be obsessive BUT I might have to say that the both of us have a number of interests that we support by hundreds of coins and THAT might be considered just a bit obsessive. You are a great deal more interested in Probus than I am which explains my Probus count is about 10% of yours. We are closer to a match on Septimius Severus (I don't have that number without doing the math) but know there are about 50 from Alexandria which some would say is a bit over the top. I am aware of a couple denarii I don't have so I'm not ready to back off and there is always the matter of our finding a type we did not previously know to exist. Sitting here expecting, not just hoping to find those new ones is part of the fun. </p><p><br /></p><p>For Ocat - I know I have shown these but I like them. The first is an ordinary coin but the photo shows the silvering situation well.</p><p><img src="https://a4.pbase.com/o2/88/582688/1/140671009.nQK6KJCU.05dprobclem.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have more military busts than consular ones but always liked this one (and it is a coded coin).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1197032[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4982480, member: 19463"]I do not see having hundreds of coins of Probus to be obsessive BUT I might have to say that the both of us have a number of interests that we support by hundreds of coins and THAT might be considered just a bit obsessive. You are a great deal more interested in Probus than I am which explains my Probus count is about 10% of yours. We are closer to a match on Septimius Severus (I don't have that number without doing the math) but know there are about 50 from Alexandria which some would say is a bit over the top. I am aware of a couple denarii I don't have so I'm not ready to back off and there is always the matter of our finding a type we did not previously know to exist. Sitting here expecting, not just hoping to find those new ones is part of the fun. For Ocat - I know I have shown these but I like them. The first is an ordinary coin but the photo shows the silvering situation well. [IMG]https://a4.pbase.com/o2/88/582688/1/140671009.nQK6KJCU.05dprobclem.jpg[/IMG] I have more military busts than consular ones but always liked this one (and it is a coded coin). [ATTACH=full]1197032[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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