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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7533724, member: 110350&quot;][USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER], I&#039;d love to hear the story of how your coin took almost a year to arrive! And [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], that&#039;s some provenance, for a beautiful coin. I could swear that I just saw some coins from the Stoecklin Collection for sale within the last week or so, but perhaps I&#039;m imagining things.</p><p><br /></p><p>For the record, as much as I like this new coin, my own favorite Roman Republican portrait of Vesta is probably still this one, issued about 6-9 years later (my Roman Republican No. 45), which I wrote about three months ago at <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republican-denarius-45.374815/#post-6245666" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republican-denarius-45.374815/#post-6245666">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republican-denarius-45.374815/#post-6245666</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, L. Cassius Longinus, AR Denarius, 63 or 60 BCE, Rome Mint. Obv. Veiled and diademed head of Vesta left, control-letter “A” before her, kylix (two-handled cup) behind her / Rev. Togate figure standing left, dropping a voting tablet favorable to proposed legislation, inscribed “V” (Vti Rogas [= “as you propose”]) into a cista before him, LONGIN III•V downwards behind him. Crawford 413/1, RSC I Cassia 10 (ill.), Sear RCV I 364 (ill.), Sydenham 935, Harlan, RRM II Ch. 6 at pp.49-53, BMCRR 3929 (control-letter “A”); see also id. 3930-3936 (other control letters). 3.96 g., 19 mm., 6 h.&nbsp; Formerly in NGC slab, Cert. No.4280866-009, Graded Ch. XF, Strike: 4/5, Surface 4/5.) [Footnote omitted.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Dealer&#039;s photo:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1300750[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My photo of obverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1300751[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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