Jim actually is making
very good use of my first Nikon Macro lens, which (being lazy and having slightly older eyes) I didn't want to use on the DSL D80. I knew it was a
good lens, from my use with it on a Nikon F2, but
had never used it on coins. He actually bought it from me, halfway around the world, and I am so glad to see that I didn't cheat him and it didn't 'cheat' me. My present lens is simply Nikon's
autofocus, 1987, replacement for it.
Pat L.
P.S. I'll have those last 55 of mine up in the
album as soon as Golf is over for the day (it is addictive, even to old ladies who only watch).
The 'little coppers' are all under 20mm and have no 'dimples' and include half-assaria, one
assaria, and two
assaria (
denominations used differently by different writers: only at
Tomis, perhaps, do we have any idea of how they were
applied, and
Tomis is different, as
Regling and, earlier, Soutzo saw). The tiniest-diameter semi-autonomous ones may weigh as much as ones with
portraits.
The 'small brass' are typically 21-22 or 23 mm, depending on how hard they were hit and how hot the brass was, and weigh between 5 and 7 grams, with a few anomalous ones. They are in those respects like those for
Diadumenian with the
reverse die marked
at
Marcianopolis, which the
tells us are triassaria, and I assume, with the normal reservations (Marc. and N ad I are not quite alike if you compare their
weight ranges), that they are all those triassaria for empresses and Caesars. In the period of Gentianus and, I think, also perhaps of Auspex, the coins with Septimius to left on
obverse and those that go with them in this module are also, I think, triassaria. At Nicopolis, Diadumenian's are not marked, but the brass Harpokrates and those that go with it, also should be triassaria like the marked one at
Marcianopolis.
The Antonine small coins at N ad I are more comparable to those of
Philippopolis, and some of them are even
signed.