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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1651062, member: 19463&quot;]Again I suffer in timeliness by having a life away from the Internet butI&#039;d like to offer an opinion regarding Steve&#039;s two sestertii.&nbsp; At $100 each they seem a bit high but I might have considered the second one because of the reverse type showing Tiber, the personification of Rome&#039;s river.&nbsp; Pius has a lot of bronzes.&nbsp; Some are really, really cool. Since we can&#039;t own them all (can we???), I tend to be willing to pay more for a coin that has something different, interesting or beautiful and less for just another standing goddess/nobody.&nbsp; Being very low priced or very high grade certainly can qualify a coin for special status.&nbsp; I really want the big pig reverse.&nbsp;&nbsp; I like action scenes or things related to history.&nbsp; I like coins with nice smooth surfaces even if that comes with some wear as long as the price is right.&nbsp; Was buying the Tiber sestertius a mistake?&nbsp; Not to me.&nbsp; It is a coin that may be replaced someday by a nicer one but it is not something to shun like we are too good to have a coin like that in our collections.&nbsp; Unlike Steve, I rarely spend enough taking my wife out to dinner to buy a coin but we tend to dine at Taco Bell or Wendy&#039;s (dollar menu) and get the senior discount.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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