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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2656715, member: 84744&quot;]Oooh, it&#039;s me!!&nbsp; Excellent!!&nbsp; Awesome deal, [USER=21445]@Mat[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my first ever ancient coin, purchased at an antique shop in England for 5 GBP, when I was a teenager:</p><p>AE as, IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, laureate head right, slight drapery on far shoulder; PROVIDENTIA AVG S.C., Providentia standing facing, holding anchor and corn ears, modius at feet. RIC IV 647.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]588627[/ATTACH] </p><p>I expect it&#039;s unusual to start a collection with a rather scarce third century small bronze!&nbsp; It was not identified (not even as Roman), so I immediately bought a book and puzzled out the legends.&nbsp; I was hooked.</p><p><br /></p><p>Much later, I got the denarius, RIC 252 (my avatar coin):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]588629[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And then finally the sestertius (RIC 645):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]588630[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, I don&#039;t yet have an Orbiana to accompany my 3 Sev Alexes. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; What I&#039;d especially like is an AE as like [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER]&#039;s to go with my coin #1.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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