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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 3124583, member: 31620&quot;]I have several focus areas in my collection. One of them is Probus from Lugdunum. I fill gaps whenever I can find them in my budget. I only manage to buy a few new coins a year as the number of gaps narrows and the more desirable coins stay outside my budget. A such the majority of my additions are small variations.</p><p><br /></p><p>My latest coin is a reverse &quot;SPES AVG, Spes standing left, holding flower and raising robe&quot; from the 9th and final Emission, which Bastien dates to January to August A.D. 282.</p><p><br /></p><p>It sits alongside several others of this type and I am going to show them allto illustrate how my focus has edged beyond a collecting focus to an obosession.</p><p><br /></p><p>This type comes with two obverse legends &quot;IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG&quot; and &quot;IMP C PROBVS • P • F • AVG&quot;. The coins are all marked with an Officina mark of &quot;C&quot; or &quot;Retrograde C&quot; which appears in either the left or right reverse field. </p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;IMP C M AVR PROBVS AVG&quot; coins only appear with the bust &quot;Radiate draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from the rear&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;C&quot; left</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132ud_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&quot;Retrograde C&quot; left</p><p><b>Still searching for and example</b></p><p>&quot;C&quot; right</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132sl_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&quot;Retrograde C&quot; right</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132uw_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;IMP C PROBVS • P • F • AVG&quot; coins appear with the busts &quot;Radiate cuirassed bust right&quot; and &quot;Radiate draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from the front&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;C&quot; left</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132xa_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&quot;Retrograde C&quot; left</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132od_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&quot;C&quot; right</p><p><b>Still searching for and example</b></p><p>&quot;Retrograde C&quot; right</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132bl_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&quot;C&quot; left</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132nt_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&quot;Retrograde C&quot; left <b>(MY NEWEST ADDITION)</b></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132yc_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&quot;C&quot; right</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132uy_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&quot;Retrograde C&quot; right</p><p><b>Still searching for and example</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Perhaps I will resurrect this thread at some time over the coming years as and if I ever manage to fill one of these gaps.</p><p><br /></p><p>Who else is equally focussed/obsessed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Martin[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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