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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JulesUK, post: 4359109, member: 107940&quot;]Thank you [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER] for being so generous. This is a fantastic community and I am so glad to have found it, especially as I have so much to learn (Which is a good thing right!).</p><p>I have chosen the following coin because it was one of the first in my collection that really brought home the honour of being able to handle and admire what for me are little works of art with such history surrounding them.</p><p>This coin also had added meaning for me as I purchased it not long after reading the book &quot;I Claudius&quot; by Robert Graves, in which the emperors depicted feature heavily at the start.</p><p>Finally, the red patination, for me, gives an almost surreal feel to the coin, a bloodiness if you will, which, though a bit dramatic, summons up scenes of battle and conquest. Anyway - I have a vivid imagination at times.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1102269[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>AUGUSTUS (20-10BC) AS 26mm 13.9g Nemausus mint</p><p>Obv; IMP DIVI F. Heads of Agrippa (left) and Augustus (Rt) back to back. Agrippa wearing rostral crown and wreath, Augustus bare-headed</p><p>Rev; COL NEM. Crocodile chained to palm shoot tip right (?). Above on left long ties.&nbsp; RIC I Augustus 157[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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