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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 4310963, member: 75143&quot;]The other day I bought 2 lots of 100 assorted LRBs. Total price for all 200 was $146.44, or about $0.73 each.</p><p><br /></p><p>Was it worth it? <b>Let&#039;s find out</b>.</p><p><br /></p><p>First we&#039;ll start with the &quot;unidentifiables.&quot; I&#039;ve sorted these into three categories: Very Low Grade, Low Grade, Medium Grade, and Byzantine.</p><p><br /></p><p>26x Very Low Grade denotes those coins with absolutely <i>no features whatsoever</i>. You can hem and haw at these all day, but there&#039;s just nothing there. A real shame, since the biggest as and dupondius-sized coins were in this category.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096269[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>x40 Low Grade. These are coins with enough detail to say &quot;yes, it&#039;s a Roman coin&quot; but not much else. ID&#039;ing these would be next to impossible, but still &quot;potentially&quot; doable.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096270[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>x68 Medium Grade. These are coins with enough detail to <i>probably</i> positively ID, but it will be very tough. At the very least, you can identify the reverse type and make out a portrait. Some letters, but these are an ID&#039;ers nightmare.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096317[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>x12 Byzantine. I don&#039;t know anything about Byzantine coins, so I really can&#039;t tell much here. A few have fully readable reversed, but obliterated obverses. One is a trachy.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096280[/ATTACH]</p><p>So, 146 out of 200 coins are unusable to me, at least. Someone else may get more use out of the Byzantines, or be able to ID the &quot;medium grade&quot; ones. But I certainly can&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>Out of the remaining 54 coins, in order from least cool to most cool:</p><p>x12 Constantius II. Reverses: two soldiers, VOT, Fel Temp</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096282[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>x9 Valens. Reverses: Emperor dragging captive, Victory left</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096289[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>x9 Constans. one Victory, two Victory, VOT, Fel Temp</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096290[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;x4 Constantine I. Reverses: Commemorative, campgate, VOT, posthumous issue</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096302[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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