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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8186732, member: 110350"]Perhaps they're not exactly a "holy grail," but I did think of a couple of Roman Republican coins from the same moneyer that fit the definition in the sense that I would very much like to own them, and have attempted more than once to buy each of them at auction, but have failed miserably each time: the M. Volteius denarii with reverses depicting Ceres driving a snake biga, and Cybele driving a lion biga. (Even though they look more like very large dogs!) While I'm at it, I would also love to have the Julia Domna denarius with a reverse showing Cybele driving not a biga but a quadriga of lions! (That actually look like lions.) But that, too, has proved elusive (and too expensive) to date.</p><p><br /></p><p>I certainly wouldn't mind having a coin of Otho and a portrait coin of Julius Caesar -- I'd rather have that than the Caesar elephant denarius. With my bronzes of Caligula and Claudius, that would give me a mix-and-match 12 Caesars set. (I have no great desire to spend the money required for Caligula and Claudius denarii.) But neither the Caesar nor the Otho are coins that I want in the same visceral sense that I want the snake and lion coins I mention above.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same for solidi of Theodosius I and Theodosius II, given that I already have Arcadius and Honorius: I'd like to own them someday to sort of complete the family, but they're not burning ambitions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8186732, member: 110350"]Perhaps they're not exactly a "holy grail," but I did think of a couple of Roman Republican coins from the same moneyer that fit the definition in the sense that I would very much like to own them, and have attempted more than once to buy each of them at auction, but have failed miserably each time: the M. Volteius denarii with reverses depicting Ceres driving a snake biga, and Cybele driving a lion biga. (Even though they look more like very large dogs!) While I'm at it, I would also love to have the Julia Domna denarius with a reverse showing Cybele driving not a biga but a quadriga of lions! (That actually look like lions.) But that, too, has proved elusive (and too expensive) to date. I certainly wouldn't mind having a coin of Otho and a portrait coin of Julius Caesar -- I'd rather have that than the Caesar elephant denarius. With my bronzes of Caligula and Claudius, that would give me a mix-and-match 12 Caesars set. (I have no great desire to spend the money required for Caligula and Claudius denarii.) But neither the Caesar nor the Otho are coins that I want in the same visceral sense that I want the snake and lion coins I mention above. The same for solidi of Theodosius I and Theodosius II, given that I already have Arcadius and Honorius: I'd like to own them someday to sort of complete the family, but they're not burning ambitions.[/QUOTE]
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