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THE COIN COLLECTOR - World eBook Library

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UNIQUE OR REMARKABLE <strong>COIN</strong>S<br />

When we come to the Roman coins, we first meet<br />

with the Roman obs in all its varied divisions and<br />

periodical gradations of weight, of which more<br />

will be said elsewhere; there are in the Consular or<br />

Republican Series certain families, of whose currency<br />

the examples are of the utmost rarity, and have baffled<br />

the researches of the most ardent and generous col-<br />

lectors, while others are common to excess even in fine<br />

state. The Yorke Moore cabinet lacked many examples<br />

to the last. The denarii, with the portraits of Julius<br />

Caesar, Pompey, Mark Antony, Antony and Cleopatra,<br />

&c, the Victoriati, and the Family and Romano-<br />

Campanian gold, are always desirable. Of the Imperial<br />

Roman and Colonial money the proportion of notable<br />

pieces is large, and the normal rarities numerous. No<br />

brass or copper of Otho of Roman origin, and no first<br />

size of any kind, have yet been reported ; the first<br />

brass of Matidia, Marciana, Plotina, Pertinax, and<br />

others, and the aurei, and even third brass, of more<br />

obscure reigns, are extremely difficult to procure. All<br />

the coins of Julia, daughter of Augustus, and wife<br />

of Agrippa, are rare ; they are only found in the<br />

Colonial Series (Pergamus, Corinth, &c), which also<br />

includes the Judaea Capta and other interesting his-<br />

torical examples. To the English collector the<br />

Britannia type in good state, and the gold and even<br />

silver of Carausius and Allectus, are to be commended.<br />

Throughout the series, but especially in the earlier<br />

first brass, we encounter reverses of great artistic merit<br />

and historical interest. Fuller information is to be<br />

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