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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 14497284, member: 75143&quot;]This year I participated in two exchanges, so I&#039;ll post them separately.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first one I received featured these two really lovely coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>First up is this awesome Trajan silver drachm of Bostra, Arabia. This one is really neat because it is one of the few coins that actually features a camel, albeit a tiny one. I actually once bought one where the camel was described as &quot;gato&quot; - cat!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1531853[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Next is a cool Antiochan issue of Philip I. Antioch is known for their popular standards reverse, with &quot;SR&quot; on the standard flag, or below, or between the standards. I forget what SR means.</p><p><br /></p><p>Antioch is also well known for some of the worst spelling mistakes in the Ancient world. Seems like all those celators were not only illiterate, but incapable of copying off a template. Volusian is one of the worst offenders.</p><p>This one is really good though, standard spellings, and nothing garbled. It does have a strange obverse text, with only &quot;A&quot; instead of &quot;AVG&quot; after &quot;PHILIPPVS.&quot; Curious.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1531854[/ATTACH] </p><p>Many thanks, secret friend![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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