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<p>[QUOTE="Blake Davis, post: 4831036, member: 91820"]For my collecting goal I had also decided on a variation of the one coin per rule - I had restricted it to sestertii, and tried to collect one per emperor, empress, prince, princess, family member or usurper in all major styles and ranks that sestertii were struck for that person - in aVF - or better. For example there were three major styles for Trajan so I have three sestertii - there might be more but that's what I limited it to.</p><p><br /></p><p>After almost 20 years I had come a ways (the "aVF" or better rule was quickly doscarded) but still needed many more and things started to get absurd - for example, would I want to pay a lot of money for a worn out ugly looking sestertii of Domitilla, or a nice but more common sestertii of someone else? And how could I possibly afford or even find many, especially the princesses and empresses, like Plotina, Tranqullina, Plautilla, Domitilla et als? Has anyone even ever seen a sestertii of Tranquillina outside of the British Museum?</p><p><br /></p><p>So I tossed in the towel, and now only collect sestertii of the family of Septimius Severus, in collectable condition and keep my eyes open for travel sestertii of Hadrian. But even that is getting more and more difficult - It is now almost impossible to find affordable - or any - sestertii of Septimius that I do not have - even ones that are supposedly common in RIC, but according to the databases I have reviewed have very rarely if ever been offered for sale. A good example is a "Securitas Publica" type for Septimius - I managed to buy one worn example I found on French ebay, and according to the databases very few of this type have been offered for sale since 1998, despite being designated in RIC as scarce, not rare. And yes, I know that the rarity designations in RIC are not that reliable but still one would think that "Securitas" would be a common coin for Septimius as it is for Caracalla.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blake Davis, post: 4831036, member: 91820"]For my collecting goal I had also decided on a variation of the one coin per rule - I had restricted it to sestertii, and tried to collect one per emperor, empress, prince, princess, family member or usurper in all major styles and ranks that sestertii were struck for that person - in aVF - or better. For example there were three major styles for Trajan so I have three sestertii - there might be more but that's what I limited it to. After almost 20 years I had come a ways (the "aVF" or better rule was quickly doscarded) but still needed many more and things started to get absurd - for example, would I want to pay a lot of money for a worn out ugly looking sestertii of Domitilla, or a nice but more common sestertii of someone else? And how could I possibly afford or even find many, especially the princesses and empresses, like Plotina, Tranqullina, Plautilla, Domitilla et als? Has anyone even ever seen a sestertii of Tranquillina outside of the British Museum? So I tossed in the towel, and now only collect sestertii of the family of Septimius Severus, in collectable condition and keep my eyes open for travel sestertii of Hadrian. But even that is getting more and more difficult - It is now almost impossible to find affordable - or any - sestertii of Septimius that I do not have - even ones that are supposedly common in RIC, but according to the databases I have reviewed have very rarely if ever been offered for sale. A good example is a "Securitas Publica" type for Septimius - I managed to buy one worn example I found on French ebay, and according to the databases very few of this type have been offered for sale since 1998, despite being designated in RIC as scarce, not rare. And yes, I know that the rarity designations in RIC are not that reliable but still one would think that "Securitas" would be a common coin for Septimius as it is for Caracalla.[/QUOTE]
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