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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3204777, member: 19463&quot;]That is a fact!&nbsp; One benefit of participating in a coin gabfest like CT is seeing which coins appealed to someone else.&nbsp; Sometimes it is obvious; sometimes not.&nbsp; That is why I enjoy most the posts that spend less time copying online catalog entries and more in the words of the collector explaining the why that coin spoke in a shout. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My coins may not be a close match but align with yours rather well on a one on one basis. </p><p><br /></p><p>I always wanted a Caracalla from the time of his massacre in Alexandria.&nbsp; This LKB drachm is as close as I have found.&nbsp; I would like it better with an appropriately violent reverse but, when it comes to Alexandrian coins of Caracalla, you take what you can get.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]830269[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My Gordian III as is smaller and less beautiful than your wonderful Antioch but it shouted loudly because of the Anonymous follis struck over it almost 800 years later.&nbsp; It is my favorite coin purchases since Y2K.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]830272[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My Faustina (OK, I know it is Junior) offering is no beauty but I could not pass up a barbarous sestertius this bad.&nbsp; I have not seen that many barbarous sestertii. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]830273[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m skipping the turret because none I have spoke up enough to earn this spot.&nbsp; Is it me or does Tyche look a lot like Vespasian?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Well I suppose we could say because it is yours and not mine but that would seem petty.&nbsp; I like mine, too, but yours is prettier.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]830265[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>For your tiny dolphins coin I&#039;ll show an Aurelian with a tiny dolphin in exergue.&nbsp; When it comes to tiny dolphin coins, we may have the tiniest???</p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]830275[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, I show a test cut so complete that no amount of Elmers could help it even if I did have the other half.&nbsp; I have other half coins but this one being fourree makes the added view really special.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]830278[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The point here is that our coins can be special for any reason that makes sense to us even if we are the only ones to whom there is any sense to be made.&nbsp; Did I mention, I like each and every one of your speaking selections but I would have to single out that Tyche not so much for the hat but for the jowls.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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