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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2732153, member: 19463&quot;]Having shown the &#039;special&#039; coins from the show, I&#039;ll go on to the ones I might not have bought but they just looked nice and I am compulsive at a show.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Vespasian denarius is neither rare nor specially interesting but, for the grade, is decent looking.&nbsp; I like toned coins.&nbsp; Coins of this grade are not expensive and feed my addiction.&nbsp; The reverse is said to be the emperor seated but I can&#039;t help pointing out that the pose and legend looks a lot like Tiberius &#039; Tribute Penny&#039; so we can call this a Poor Man&#039;s version (probably 1/5 to 1/10 the price).&nbsp; Considering you will see a fistfull of the Tiberius coins for every one of these, it goes to illustrate how scarcity has nothing to do with prices. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]621579[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The other is a silver didrachm of Caesarea showing Lucius Verus and Mt. Argaeus.&nbsp; We had a thread not long ago showing this reverse as used by other emperors and I did not have the Verus.&nbsp; Again, the tone had something to do with the selection.&nbsp; Compared to the later coins, the mountain seems somewhat stylized.&nbsp; The dealer had two of these almost exactly the same grade and could not explain why this one was cheaper.&nbsp; He was one that bases prices on what he paid rather than what he thinks he might get.&nbsp; Some of these show the mountain topped with a statue rather than a star.&nbsp; I can not explain why.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]621578[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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