Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 4477072, member: 87404&quot;]I got this quintuple group delivered yesterday (after the tracking went missing for a week or more), and spent the morning with them.&nbsp; Then after a couple work meetings and the sun started to become covered by some clouds, I decided to take advantage of that and snap a few photos of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>This first one I think is the STAR of the group.&nbsp; It&#039;s nice and chunky for a coin of this later period. And though it isn&#039;t terribly uncommon, it&#039;s just feels nice in hand, the details are sharp, the fields are flat, and it has a lot of silvering still intact.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wasn&#039;t certain on the best way of revealing all these features that make me love this coin in a digital fashion, so I took a few different pictures at different angles to focus on the various aspects.&nbsp; I also took a quick video and converted it to animated GIF to illustrate what it is like as I move it in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>The basic &quot;head-on&quot; shot:</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/incollage_20200506_122634346.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The angle showing off it&#039;s original <i>shiny-ness</i> (I can&#039;t imagine the grandeur that would&#039;ve accompanied it when it was fresh from the mint!):</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/incollage_20200506_122753762.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>And the angle that reflects as much of the physical light on it&#039;s surfaces (&quot;so smooth, like buttah&quot;):</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/incollage_20200506_123105402.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>And here are all those aspects put together in a moving image:</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/20200507_111956.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Ok, now on to Maximian&#039;s travel partners...</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Though this is a cockroach, it&#039;s a very pretty cockroach. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Yes, &quot;another Gordian III Antoninainus&quot;, but it&#039;s a very early type from 238 AD.</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/incollage_20200506_123212903.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>...with an exceptionally beautiful Pax on reverse!</p><p>&nbsp;<img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/20200506_114733.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The third coin is of a much higher silver content than my other Ant of this emperor: Postumus. And that reverse is very nice and crips as well! Double the emperor, double the fun!</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/incollage_20200506_123355256.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Non-silver example for comparison: [ATTACH]1112945[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The fourth coin I got because I did&#039;t have one of these reverse types yet: Alexandrian tetradrachm of Maximian with Nike reverse, RY 3.&nbsp; Contextually, it&#039;s a pretty decent example.</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/incollage_20200506_122445601.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>And then that leaves up with coin number five.&nbsp; It&#039;s not without faults and it pretty common, but like the coin above, I didn&#039;t have an example of it:&nbsp; Probus with with Roma in hexastyle temple, ROMAE AETERNAE.</p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/incollage_20200506_122333047.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>What coins have shown up on your doorstep lately?&nbsp; Do you have any relevant coins?&nbsp; Any additional information?</i></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in