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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2090054, member: 19463"]I did not know Martin collected Rome mint. I have a few Rome (mostly Legionaries and those from early periods which were made while the Eastern mints were open) but many SS collectors only gather Easterns. The Rome mint rarities sell for big money but only a few of us even know which Eastern ones are scarce since so few of them made RIC. In the 90's, few dealers knew the difference and most who did could not care about coins of 'poor' style and usually worse preservation. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Mars is a special coin to me. I did not see this one or I would have bid. I only have one with the COS ending on the reverse and one with COSII. Long ago I only had two Alexandria denarii. Someone at the British Museum put me in contact with the late Roger Bickford Smith who was then the leading collector of these coins and author of the only article on them I know. Roger offered me 5 times what I thought my coins were worth but I kept them and expanded my interest from Emesa to all Easterns. The rest is history.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]391183[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I might mention that the coin is not 'correctly' dated but my coin lacks the left legend on the reverse. Several types of Septimius from Alexandria copy reverses of other emperors. This one is Lucius Verus but has the COSII legend.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]391184[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The other coin Roger wanted was this one that copies Pertinax:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]391185[/ATTACH] </p><p>I don't own the matching Pertinax but acsearch shows many.</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=pertinax+aequitas&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=pertinax+aequitas&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=pertinax+aequitas&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I believe the Septimius is a hundred times more scarce than is the Pertinax but nobody pays for rarity and everybody trying to fill out their one-per-emperor wants a Pertinax.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2090054, member: 19463"]I did not know Martin collected Rome mint. I have a few Rome (mostly Legionaries and those from early periods which were made while the Eastern mints were open) but many SS collectors only gather Easterns. The Rome mint rarities sell for big money but only a few of us even know which Eastern ones are scarce since so few of them made RIC. In the 90's, few dealers knew the difference and most who did could not care about coins of 'poor' style and usually worse preservation. The Mars is a special coin to me. I did not see this one or I would have bid. I only have one with the COS ending on the reverse and one with COSII. Long ago I only had two Alexandria denarii. Someone at the British Museum put me in contact with the late Roger Bickford Smith who was then the leading collector of these coins and author of the only article on them I know. Roger offered me 5 times what I thought my coins were worth but I kept them and expanded my interest from Emesa to all Easterns. The rest is history. [ATTACH=full]391183[/ATTACH] I might mention that the coin is not 'correctly' dated but my coin lacks the left legend on the reverse. Several types of Septimius from Alexandria copy reverses of other emperors. This one is Lucius Verus but has the COSII legend. [ATTACH=full]391184[/ATTACH] The other coin Roger wanted was this one that copies Pertinax: [ATTACH=full]391185[/ATTACH] I don't own the matching Pertinax but acsearch shows many. [url]http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=pertinax+aequitas&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1¤cy=usd&order=0&company=[/url] I believe the Septimius is a hundred times more scarce than is the Pertinax but nobody pays for rarity and everybody trying to fill out their one-per-emperor wants a Pertinax.[/QUOTE]
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