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Message:: [QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 7967029, member: 42773"][USER=89687]@ominus1[/USER] : That's hands-down the coolest antique I've ever seen! [USER=86498]@Terence Cheesman[/USER] : Safe travels and by all means, please post from the London Coin Fair! I'd love to see many pics and a complete report! This is a fun thread which I haven't seen yet since I've been doing more dealing than collecting over the past few years. I'll chime in with today's project, which was to photograph the recent acquisition of a Celtic tet, and to re-photograph a set of barbarous LRB's of the Constantinian Era. The tet imitates the Paeonian types of Patraos, and has a nice pedigree going back to the 70's. It'll get it's own thread eventually. Curiously, I happen to have a companion piece to the tet in a barbarous imitation of a Magnentius issue - that shares the same reverse theme six centuries later! The other barbs are random, previous acquisitions of imitative pieces - a branch of the hobby that's under-appreciated and under-represented in my opinion. I'm thinking it would be a fun collection to get high-quality originals of these types as companion pieces. Easily done for the LRB's, the Paeonian tet not so much. That series was beautifully engraved but haphazardly struck. None of the current offerings on the market please me... [ATTACH=full]1381474[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]