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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3240275, member: 19463&quot;]Perhaps this is a good place to point out a problem with the terms rare and common as they apply to ancient coins.&nbsp; Taken as a whole the Falling Horsemen are about as common as any ancient coin but there are 2200+ acknowledged varieties of which some exist by the thousands and others are hard to find even with a lot of looking. That 2200+ number (from Dane of Wildwinds) took into account mints and officina as well as the major pose variations (FH1, FH2, FH3 and FH4) but real specialists like our Randy keep finding other little things like a shield with a swirl design that will raise that number.&nbsp; The question is what YOU define as a big enough difference to make a difference.&nbsp; Below are five coins.&nbsp; Some here would never want even one of them because none are mint state.&nbsp; Some would see four of them being duplicates of the FH3 &#039;Reaching&#039; pose so would not want more than one of those four.&nbsp; Some would see one different enough due to the obverse being ulike the other four.&nbsp; A few would love to have the set and recognize each as collectible.&nbsp; None are wrong in their opinions but the coins below are either five of the same, most common Roman coins or five very different coins (only one of which is common) just depending on whom you ask. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]848016[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]848021[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]848025[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]848027[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]848028[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I just realized I do not own a Constans FH3.&nbsp; If I did, I would have posted it here but now I guess there is a new want list item.&nbsp; This list can get expensive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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