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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orange Julius, post: 4508747, member: 77226&quot;]Absolutely... Alexandrian coins are the one type where I&#039;ll still buy then even if worn to nearly nothing. They&#039;ve given me a problem to figure out recently... a few weeks ago I bought a lot of 15 coins (13 or so from Alexandria... diobols and obols of Vespasian, Domitian, Hadrian, even an Otho! etc.) for about $30... they are mostly identifiable but worn to nothing or really rough. I&#039;m trying to figure out if they make it into my collection binders or are just a fun attribution activity, then into the jar of worn coins with them. They&#039;re all pretty ugly but really fun to work on. </p><p><br /></p><p>I started with the normal late third century tetradrachms but after getting a few rough earlier drachms... I was hooked. The reverses are just so interesting and the dating makes them fun among provincials where normally a specific year is hard to come by.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the Trajan, yeah I love it. The temple is what made me drool over it... the temple impression under the reverse is what tipped the scales to make me buy it. In much internet searching... it&#039;s the nicest of the type I can find anywhere. It does have a bit of a concave reverse. It&#039;s hard to see here but here&#039;s a photo.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1117533[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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