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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4432327, member: 85693&quot;]There&#039;s been some enjoyable recent posts about lower grade coins, so I was inspired to share a couple of scruffy dupondii I just got on the cheap. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for condition, 30-some years ago when I first started collecting ancients, I was fairly picky about condition - a few missing obverse letters would put me &quot;off&quot; a coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>Since then I have dramatically changed my outlook - high-grade pristine ancients are great to look at (which is one of the reasons why I like CT so much - there so many beautiful high-grade coins out there).&nbsp; But I have no desire to own such coins - I can&#039;t afford &#039;em is the biggest obstacle, but even if I won the lottery I think I&#039;d be buying in the VF or lower range.&nbsp; We&#039;ll see if my CT posts improve after I win the lottery. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie47" alt=":greedy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Until the lottery comes through, here are two dupondii I just got, Trajan with Pax stomping a Dacian and Hadrian with Salus feeding a giant Bartlett pear to the Salus snake (I the &quot;pear&quot; is, I&#039;m guessing, part of some ancient adhesion incident in the coin&#039;s past).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1109574[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Trajan&nbsp; Æ Dupondius</b></p><p><b><b>Rome Mint </b></b></p><p><b>(103-111 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </b></p><p>IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER [DAC PM TRP COS V PP], radiate bust r., with aegis / SPQR OPTIMO PRINCIPI SC Pax standing left holding branch &amp; cornucopiae; foot on Dacian&#039;s head and shoulders.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>RIC 505 var. (no aegis).</p><p>(11.15 grams / 27 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1109573[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Hadrian&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ&nbsp; Dupondius</b></p><p><b>(125-128 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint </b></p><p>[HADRIA]NVS AVG[VSTVS], radiate bust right / [COS III] S C Salus seated left on throne, feeding from patera snake coiling up from altar and resting left arm on throne</p><p>RIC 657i.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>(12.06 grams / 26 x 23 mm) </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Attribution Note:&nbsp; </b></p><p><br /></p><p>Most of these in online auctions have slight drapery on left shoulder, which OCRE says is RIC 657j.&nbsp; This one appears to have no drapery which OCRE says is RIC 657i.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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