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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 8141009, member: 86498&quot;]Happy New Year and it is Saturday.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I certainly hope that this year will b better than the last (Didn&#039;t we hope for the same thing last year<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie40" alt=":dead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />) Well lets try to forget that. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie103" alt=":yack:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> On my part we are a little bit early. However for most of the planet it is Saturday and a brand new year. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> One thing that I can say is that barring any disaster I will be at the NYINC and I am looking forward to that. I happen to be working on an article and ran into this coin. </p><p>Florian Billon Aurelianus Lugdunum 276 AD Obv. Bust right radiate draped and cuirassed. Rv. Felicitas standing right. RIC 11 4.03 grams 22 mm photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1419175[/ATTACH]The obverse is interesting in that Florian is depicted in a beard rather reminiscent of his predecessor Tacitus. This is unusual as in most other portraits he is seen with the standard close cropped military style beard so prevalent at this time.&nbsp; The reverse legend reads TEMPORVM FELICITAS Essentially this means happy times and given that this coin is minted at the beginning of the reign one is tempted to read Happy times are here again. Something that today we could certainly make use of. Hopefully on this thread for today lets see some happy coins.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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