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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3949095, member: 19463&quot;]IMHO, this is the way to collect.&nbsp; I can not be a generalist completely since I can not get interested in modern, machine made coins but I can enjoy most things with real age.&nbsp;&nbsp; I like all these coins an really like coins that come with questions.&nbsp; I have a few.</p><p><br /></p><p>#9.&nbsp; What do you make of the wear through on the lettering making dark centers?&nbsp; What is the wandering line running up the center of the grain?&nbsp; Was this issue done with severe flan enhancement (acid pickling of the flans to enrich the top layer)?&nbsp; Could this be plated?</p><p><br /></p><p>#5.&nbsp; I love the coin for the reasons you state but often wonder why so many die cutters show a bow string curved like the bow.&nbsp; At rest, bow strings are straight.&nbsp; This can not be just sloppy work. The overall work is too high a level.</p><p><br /></p><p>#4.&nbsp; The edge irregularity that shows on the obverse but not reverse is odd.&nbsp; What happened and when?</p><p><br /></p><p>#1.&nbsp; (My favorite)&nbsp; Do you see the possibility that the emperor was not &#039;allowing&#039; this die coupling as much as the mint was using up dies left over rather like we suspect from the Urbs Roma / two soldiers &#039;mules&#039; which are far too common to be accidents.&nbsp; I suspect many people then (and now?) were quick to proclaim their Christianity without having the same view of what that meant as we do today.&nbsp; The best example of that is the Constantine death issue with DV.&nbsp; What do we know of Valens&#039; theology (if he had any)?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect there is a line forming behing TIF.&nbsp; I&#039;m there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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