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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24801657, member: 26430"]Great writeup, thanks for sharing! A good reminder of why live shows and coin clubs are so much fun (and educational, of course). Those Colosseum Sestertii are dazzling, especially the left one. I'd love to get a close look at them. The individual panels around the colosseum are engraved with miniature images of statues that are (at least in some cases) believed to have actually been present on the structure when it was completed. It's really hard to find high enough resolution photos of good enough specimens, but on some you can see what appear to be "Judaea Capta" type designs (e.g., triumphal quadriga, trophy, maybe palm tree, maybe captives...). Of course, it's hard to know what some of them are. I gotta start hitting the coin shows! COIN TAX: A Septimius Severus Priapus that I bought for $20 at the Chicago CICF show at least 10 years ago (but foolishly sold a couple years later, albeit at a significantly higher price):[ATTACH=full]1587052[/ATTACH] A coin purchased by "the AK Collection" at coin show Karlsruhe in 1968 (Germany):[ATTACH]1587050[/ATTACH] Some silver Antoniniani from the Dorchester Hoard purchased by Ken Bressett from Joe Powers, no doubt at the 1950 Boston Coin Show:[ATTACH]1587051[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]