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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 4432103, member: 51347&quot;]Congrats, [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER] ... That is not a problem coin, it is steeped in History, with an ADDED Bonus that someone REALLY wanted this coin.&nbsp; We can only speculate why yours was holed.&nbsp; The hole is positioned so that it makes MINIMAL damage to the design...Relative of Domitian? Someone close to Domitian? Someone just wanting emergency money around the neck?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have NO problem coins.&nbsp; Each has a cool reason, even if damaged.&nbsp; I left the &quot;problem&quot; coin concept back when I dropped modern collecting.&nbsp; They are too busy worried about commodity values of their coins.&nbsp; Yours is pure History to be discovered.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a Holed Coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>Why would a lower value BRONZE coin be holed?&nbsp; Was this an Ex-Legionary from the Colony, and he wore this as a proud Roman soldier who settled in Spain?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1109567[/ATTACH]</p><p>RImp Spain Lepida-Clesa Lepidus 44-36BCE C Balbus L Porcius Colonia Victrix Ivlia Lepida Victory - Bull holed RPI 262 plate 19[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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