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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 6612030, member: 86498&quot;]My understanding of the situation in the Roman primary sources is that poor old Antoninus&#039;s reign is usually in the part of the book that is now missing. I remember somebody in one of my university courses calling him something of a &quot;blank page&quot; as a result of this issue. This is too bad as it would be nice to know a little bit more about the man and his policies. My Aureus of Antoninus Pius is the very first Roman gold coin I had ever owned. Av Aureus 152-153 AD Obv Head right laureate. Rv. Emperor standing left togate holing a globe. RIC 226 7.28 grms 20 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1266774[/ATTACH]I bought the coin in Europe. A friend of mine was stationed in Germany and we drove into Italy to visit Rome and other places such as Pompeii. The trip was great and we waited till the last possible moment to start back home. We had planned to visit Basel Switzerland mostly to visit Munzen &amp; Medaillen which was at the time still in Switzerland. We got into Basel too late to find a hotel so we slept in the car about a block away from M&amp;M. So I got there when they were just opening. I was picking up another coin that I had won at auction and I asked to see if they had any aureii. They had something like 5 all Antoninus Pius. After some negotiation I got this guy. There ensued a memorable transfer of funds. First came about 30 dollars worth of Italian Lire. Then something like 500 Swiss francs in coins. Then Swiss paper currency . Then Canadian travelers checks. Finally some German marks. It was an interesting negotiation. First I got them to drop the price based on a down payment&nbsp; with funds coming later. Then another price drop as it looked like I could pay for the whole thing. Then pleading poverty I managed to save my last 100 DM. So I walked out of that place with my aureus which remained my only aureus for about 20 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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