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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2207528, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;ve shown the good half of what followed me home from vacation leaving only things I thought interesting and the mistakes.&nbsp; All the remaining are Byzantine.&nbsp; I bought two folles of Constantine X not realizing I had the type and my old one was better.&nbsp; They get no number and will end up being given to someone at church as likely as not.&nbsp; I have not decided whether or not to assign a number in my collection to an A2 anonymous follis with an ancient hole and very unusual letter A form on the reverse.&nbsp; Is it stupid to buy a coin because you like the way they made the A&#039;s look like an I over an M?&nbsp; That is who I am.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]430873[/ATTACH] </p><p>Three coins are getting numbers.&nbsp; The almost slick faced Justinian Antioch 20 nummi has a nice reverse (year 25) and is a good example of the use of follis obverse dies for striking half folles so there is no legend around the big face.&nbsp; The coin caused me to get out my copy of Harlan Berk&#039;s <b>Eastern Roman Successors of the Sestertius </b>which is mostly a priced catalog with meaningless numbers but many interesting little tidbits scattered here and there and a lot of really good line drawings of really ugly coins. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]430874[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The last two have been enough fun to justify their purchase.&nbsp; Both are messy overstrikes by Heraclius over Justin II and Maurice respectively.&nbsp; I like overstrikes where you can read a lot of the undertype detail.&nbsp; These are not my best but still worth adding to the pile so I could negotiate a lot price rather than paying more for the few coins I really wanted.&nbsp; Sometimes buying coins is more to justify driving five miles out of the way to find the store suggested by a smart phone query.&nbsp; I get more fun out of coins that don&#039;t demand being taken seriously. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]430875[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]430876[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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