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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 5377617, member: 85693&quot;]Great bunch of coins you have there, Valentinian.&nbsp; That 30 nummi piece is a killer-diller - I am hoping to blunder into that denomination someday. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted to say too that your website is truly a gift to ancients collectors - I consult it all the time.&nbsp; A couple years back when I got my first Maximinus Thrax coin, your explanation of all the portrait types was a big help to me. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one I got early last year - it was a $4.99 &quot;buy it now&quot; auction on eBay, so it goes on my (imaginary) Top Ten Under Ten Bucks List:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1230012[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Maximinus I&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ Sestertius </b></p><p><b>(236-238 A.D.)&nbsp; &nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>[MAX]IMINVS PIVS AV[G GE]RM, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / F[IDE]S M[ILITV]M S-C, Fides draped standing left holding two standards.</p><p>RIC 78; Cohen 13.</p><p>(17.88 grams / 29 x 27 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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