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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4874901, member: 99456"]Both nice coins in my view and yes, I certainly purchase off-center coins. Overall I am glad that the ancient Romans recognized the future need for multiple pricepoints, with mis-strikes, weak-strikes, bankers marks, graffiti, and varied results of aging patina, leaving many options that I can choose from.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your Petilius is particularly nice in my view, and even <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3107821" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3107821" rel="nofollow">this $4000 coin</a> is a bit off-center. When it comes to off-flan, overall appeal can be affected by more factors, than what is and isn't off-flan.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am very pleased with this coin with its unhappy, pointy-toothed, long nosed dolphin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1177445[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>L. Lucretius Trio</b>, AR Denarius, Rome, 76 BC</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Laureate bust of Neptune right; trident over shoulder; numeral (L == 50) above</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Infant Genius riding dolphin right; L•LVCRETI TRIO in two lines in exergue</p><p><b>Size: </b>4.00g, 18mm</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Crawford 390/2; Sydenham 784.</p><p><b>Note: </b>The Lucretia gens was one of the most ancient in Rome. The second wife of Numa Pompilius, second King of Rome, was named Lucretia. Another Lucretia of the same name and family was raped at the hands of Sextus Tarquinius which led to her suicide, and caused the monarchy to be overthrown and the Republic established. Her father, Spurius Lucretius Triciptinus, as one of the first consuls in 509 BC. The other consul was Lucius Junius Brutus, ancestor of the EID MAR Brutus. This coin may refer to an ancestor of the moneyer, C. Lucretius Gallus, who in 181 BC was duumvir navalis, one of two men responsible for managing the Roman fleet, and commanded the fleet against Perseus of Macedon.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, this is just the way it is with ancient coins: always a trade-off of factors: what is available, patina, condition, weight, strike, metal, centering, color, price...would I purchase <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=131451" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=131451" rel="nofollow">this one</a> for $1500 or <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=453853" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=453853" rel="nofollow">this one</a> for $3000 (probably not). I am pleased to own this imperfect coin (27.7g, 24mm) at the right price. Although it has a blotchy mahogany patina, exposing some bare metal, the surface is quite nice in hand, well preserved portrait, the aegis - a rarer feature - more visible than in the photo:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1177444[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Trajan</b>, 98-117 AD, Æ Sestertius,,struck circa 106-111 AD.</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Laureate head right, drapery on left shoulder with aegis</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Ceres, holding wheat ears and torch, standing over modius</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RIC II <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.480" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.480" rel="nofollow">480</a> var. (no aegis), no examplar in <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.480" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.480" rel="nofollow">OCRE</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4874901, member: 99456"]Both nice coins in my view and yes, I certainly purchase off-center coins. Overall I am glad that the ancient Romans recognized the future need for multiple pricepoints, with mis-strikes, weak-strikes, bankers marks, graffiti, and varied results of aging patina, leaving many options that I can choose from. Your Petilius is particularly nice in my view, and even [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3107821']this $4000 coin[/URL] is a bit off-center. When it comes to off-flan, overall appeal can be affected by more factors, than what is and isn't off-flan. I am very pleased with this coin with its unhappy, pointy-toothed, long nosed dolphin. [ATTACH=full]1177445[/ATTACH] [B]L. Lucretius Trio[/B], AR Denarius, Rome, 76 BC [B]Obv: [/B]Laureate bust of Neptune right; trident over shoulder; numeral (L == 50) above [B]Rev:[/B] Infant Genius riding dolphin right; L•LVCRETI TRIO in two lines in exergue [B]Size: [/B]4.00g, 18mm [B]Ref:[/B] Crawford 390/2; Sydenham 784. [B]Note: [/B]The Lucretia gens was one of the most ancient in Rome. The second wife of Numa Pompilius, second King of Rome, was named Lucretia. Another Lucretia of the same name and family was raped at the hands of Sextus Tarquinius which led to her suicide, and caused the monarchy to be overthrown and the Republic established. Her father, Spurius Lucretius Triciptinus, as one of the first consuls in 509 BC. The other consul was Lucius Junius Brutus, ancestor of the EID MAR Brutus. This coin may refer to an ancestor of the moneyer, C. Lucretius Gallus, who in 181 BC was duumvir navalis, one of two men responsible for managing the Roman fleet, and commanded the fleet against Perseus of Macedon. For me, this is just the way it is with ancient coins: always a trade-off of factors: what is available, patina, condition, weight, strike, metal, centering, color, price...would I purchase [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=131451']this one[/URL] for $1500 or [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=453853']this one[/URL] for $3000 (probably not). I am pleased to own this imperfect coin (27.7g, 24mm) at the right price. Although it has a blotchy mahogany patina, exposing some bare metal, the surface is quite nice in hand, well preserved portrait, the aegis - a rarer feature - more visible than in the photo: [ATTACH=full]1177444[/ATTACH] [B]Trajan[/B], 98-117 AD, Æ Sestertius,,struck circa 106-111 AD. [B]Obv:[/B] Laureate head right, drapery on left shoulder with aegis [B]Rev:[/B] Ceres, holding wheat ears and torch, standing over modius [B]Ref:[/B] RIC II [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.480']480[/URL] var. (no aegis), no examplar in [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.480']OCRE[/URL][/QUOTE]
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