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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5292779, member: 19463"]The <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/maridvnvm.31620/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/maridvnvm.31620/">maridvnvm</a> collection of this sub-sub-sub specialty is certainly magnificent. I collect the first level specialty (Eastern Severan) but do not emphasize this sub of the Syrian mint coins (Eastern Severan, Syrian, COS dated, shortened titles). I do have other subs of that sub (e.g. COS dated but not COS II, VICTOR IVST, Minerva varieties and unusual portrait styles) and, more significantly, tend toward the Alexandrian over the Syrian. The point here is that specialists can specialize in such a way that they might not overlap all that much in their eyes while outsiders might think they have the same obsessions. Perhaps that is why I have so little to say to those who consider all coins of Septimius Severus to be the same. Similarly, I often will disappoint people who expect me to have some answer about the later coins of Septimius from the Rome mint since I am mostly interested in coins made during the civil wars (193-196AD or so). I imagine other specialists in other subjects miss that I do not subdivide those interests but, to me, all Otho denarii look alike to a way specialists in his coins might not understand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5292779, member: 19463"]The [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/members/maridvnvm.31620/']maridvnvm[/URL] collection of this sub-sub-sub specialty is certainly magnificent. I collect the first level specialty (Eastern Severan) but do not emphasize this sub of the Syrian mint coins (Eastern Severan, Syrian, COS dated, shortened titles). I do have other subs of that sub (e.g. COS dated but not COS II, VICTOR IVST, Minerva varieties and unusual portrait styles) and, more significantly, tend toward the Alexandrian over the Syrian. The point here is that specialists can specialize in such a way that they might not overlap all that much in their eyes while outsiders might think they have the same obsessions. Perhaps that is why I have so little to say to those who consider all coins of Septimius Severus to be the same. Similarly, I often will disappoint people who expect me to have some answer about the later coins of Septimius from the Rome mint since I am mostly interested in coins made during the civil wars (193-196AD or so). I imagine other specialists in other subjects miss that I do not subdivide those interests but, to me, all Otho denarii look alike to a way specialists in his coins might not understand.[/QUOTE]
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