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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 968077, member: 19463"]19 is Claudius II but your focus and the glue are hiding the reverse from me. Minimal value.</p><p><br /></p><p>20 is one of the Gallo-Roman usurpers like Postumus or Tetricus but focus and glue again prevent ID. The above two and Victorinus would be minimal value. Marius or Laelianus might be worth paying someone to conserve the coin but only if the ID is certain. The thing could be the third known coin of Domitian II in which case it would send all the kids to college but the chance of that is somewhere beyond a billion to one. Is the coin worse than the others or just the photo? </p><p><br /></p><p>If you removed these from a card pasted up by a 19th century collector, you could have halved the value of the group depending on what he wrote on that card. I have seen coins with similar reverse residue that were part of really old groups and would sell as a 'history of collecting' item for more than the sum of the coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 968077, member: 19463"]19 is Claudius II but your focus and the glue are hiding the reverse from me. Minimal value. 20 is one of the Gallo-Roman usurpers like Postumus or Tetricus but focus and glue again prevent ID. The above two and Victorinus would be minimal value. Marius or Laelianus might be worth paying someone to conserve the coin but only if the ID is certain. The thing could be the third known coin of Domitian II in which case it would send all the kids to college but the chance of that is somewhere beyond a billion to one. Is the coin worse than the others or just the photo? If you removed these from a card pasted up by a 19th century collector, you could have halved the value of the group depending on what he wrote on that card. I have seen coins with similar reverse residue that were part of really old groups and would sell as a 'history of collecting' item for more than the sum of the coins.[/QUOTE]
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