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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 8183698, member: 19463"]Tacitus? Edit needed here?</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought the old stories about Tacitus being an old many had been put to rest years ago. I do not see a 70 something face on coins. We must not take the later historians as gospel in any event. Of course we get a different face from each mint and must not expect every die cutter to get the face just right in any short reign. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1431210[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1431211[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1431212[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1431213[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have only one Florian as well. I doubt that I would have even that one were it not for finding it quite by accident at a 1998 coin show in the stock of a dealer who had less interest in the man than I did. A lot of the appeal to me was the spelling out of the name Annius and the silvering. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1431207[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 8183698, member: 19463"]Tacitus? Edit needed here? I thought the old stories about Tacitus being an old many had been put to rest years ago. I do not see a 70 something face on coins. We must not take the later historians as gospel in any event. Of course we get a different face from each mint and must not expect every die cutter to get the face just right in any short reign. [ATTACH=full]1431210[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1431211[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1431212[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1431213[/ATTACH] I have only one Florian as well. I doubt that I would have even that one were it not for finding it quite by accident at a 1998 coin show in the stock of a dealer who had less interest in the man than I did. A lot of the appeal to me was the spelling out of the name Annius and the silvering. [ATTACH=full]1431207[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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