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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4956262, member: 19463&quot;]When I went off to college in the fall of 1964 I needed a photo of a group of coins to illustrate a paper I was writing for a class in ancient history.&nbsp; I did not take pictures or own a camera. A senior on my hall was the chief photographer for the yearbook and took the picture for me.&nbsp; It included three coins I still own.&nbsp; I had bought no coins that year with most of my coins then coming from the time I was taking Latin in high school so I estimate 1963.&nbsp; This photographer pointed out that there were no underclassmen taking photos for the (small) college and suggested I buy a camera and replace him when he graduated.&nbsp; That is how I got stated in photography but I did not start taking coin photos again for several years and did not have the equipment to do close ups until after I was graduated.&nbsp; Of the three coins, I really do not recall which I got first but this Septimius Severus &#039;Emesa&#039; denarius with COS I obverse may be it.&nbsp; In those days most of my coins came from a $2 pick out dish at a coin store I frequented but I did not keep records back then.&nbsp; This coin BTW shows cross supports under the chair which I have not seen on another coin of this type (FORTVN REDVC) since.&nbsp; Is it unique?&nbsp; IDK.&nbsp; Due to poverty induced by being in the Army, having a new daughter and stay at home wife/mother, I sold all my coins to Joel Malter in 1974 except the three that then struck me as special.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1191387[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have never and probably will never own an aureus.&nbsp; The fact is I would rather have $10,000 worth of denarii (about 50?) than one aureus and I have never seen the aureus I want (SS &#039;Emesa&#039; mint) estimated for less than that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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