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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3027557, member: 10461&quot;]Learned a bit, here.&nbsp; <i>Hasta pura </i>and all that.&nbsp; Thanks.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For the second time this weekend, I&#039;ve had a look through the archived pictures of my first Roman collection from 2007-08, to see if I could match a certain reverse theme.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, when I built that collection, I paid very little attention to reverse designs.&nbsp; It was all about the portrait first, name second, and if a coin had an interesting reverse, great, but if it didn&#039;t, that mattered little to me.&nbsp; I was mostly just checking imperial names off a list, though of course I was learning a lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I wasn&#039;t sure if I had a PROVIDENTIA or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>Scrolling down, I had pretty much concluded that no, there weren&#039;t any in my old collection, but lo and behold, then I saw this Tacitus:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/rs078-tacitus-jpg.628582/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Kind of interesting how I&#039;ve recently been spurred to look back at coins I sold a decade ago, and examine things about them that I was paying little attention to when I bought them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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