Excerpt from Catalogue of Roman and Greek Coins the Property of a Well-Known Collector: First Day's Sale, Roman Gold Coins, Including Exceptionally Rare Aurei of Otho, Philip I and II, Otacilia, Trebonianus, Salonina, Florianus, Urbica and Galla Placidia; Brilliant Specimens of Severus and of His Family, From the Karnak Find

The charm Of these ancient monuments in miniature reaches its height when we find specimens as fresh as when they left the mint eighteen centuries ago such as are exemplified here by the coins of Otho, Domitian M. Aurelius (50, Lucius Verus (58, and by many of the aurei of Severus and his two sons, and of Diocletian, his contemporaries and successors.

The Roman uniformity serves as an admirable foil to the Greek diversity and love of freedom, individuality, and art.

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