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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SeptimusT, post: 3122962, member: 91240&quot;]Well, my favorites are always in flux, depending on my interest and what I&#039;ve acquired recently. Right now, my favorites are probably these two.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]795011[/ATTACH] A coin of Julius Caesar seems like one of the quintessential ancients any collector should have. This one isn&#039;t in the greatest condition, but I love it for its historical significance: it was struck in a military mint to pay Caesar&#039;s troops in North Africa, so it was close to the action so to speak. And while it doesn&#039;t have his portrait, the iconography (Venus on one side, Aeneas and his father on the other) is significant to Caesar&#039;s personal propaganda, especially in light of how Virgil solidified the ties between Aeneas, Augustus, and the Roman people...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]795012[/ATTACH] </p><p>And this Hadrian tetradrachm, while very debased and worn (not to mention poorly photographed), seems like the quintessential Alexandrian coin: how can you get more Egyptian than a mummy? How cool is having a mummy (or at least a mummy god, the composite deity Ptah-Osiris-Sokar) on a coin? It sums up the reason I&#039;ve been so interested in the exoticism of Alexandrian coins lately.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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