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Roman empire: silver siliqua of Julian II, ca. 360-363 AD; found in 1887 in the East Harptree Hoard
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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4628904, member: 10461"]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5">This piece was already mentioned in [USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER]'s <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/two-coins-from-the-east-harptree-hoard.351455/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/two-coins-from-the-east-harptree-hoard.351455/">thread about East Harptree Hoard coins</a>, but I have reposted it here to create its permanent writeup.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Regarding my admittedly absurd poll: Perhaps I would have only been at an 8 or 9 on this coin without the hoard pedigree, but with it, I found the <a href="https://www.spink.com/media/view?id=339" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.spink.com/media/view?id=339" rel="nofollow">backstory</a> fascinating enough that I had to vote 10. Naturally there is a bit of new-owner bias in there. Not everyone is similarly enchanted by the romance of buried hoards or shipwrecks or stuff like that, but I definitely am. The kid in me has never grown up in that regard, and never will.</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4628904, member: 10461"][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5]This piece was already mentioned in [USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER]'s [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/two-coins-from-the-east-harptree-hoard.351455/']thread about East Harptree Hoard coins[/URL], but I have reposted it here to create its permanent writeup. Regarding my admittedly absurd poll: Perhaps I would have only been at an 8 or 9 on this coin without the hoard pedigree, but with it, I found the [URL='https://www.spink.com/media/view?id=339']backstory[/URL] fascinating enough that I had to vote 10. Naturally there is a bit of new-owner bias in there. Not everyone is similarly enchanted by the romance of buried hoards or shipwrecks or stuff like that, but I definitely am. The kid in me has never grown up in that regard, and never will.[/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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