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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1005376, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with Gao.&nbsp; If you can get a named Vetranio for under $100, it doesn&#039;t have to be perfect.&nbsp; I paid $85 for this one in 1996 and was happy to get it.&nbsp; There are many nicer than this but I still believe it is worth twice the others shown here.&nbsp; A and D are both premium rulers for their series and worth at least double the ordinary ones but so few people care that you might get them for less.&nbsp;&nbsp; A is one of the few Shahi coins which has the name of the ruler rather than just titles so I wanted it even at $20 while the same quality in other Shahi types might be $10.&nbsp; I&#039;d not call D a Chola even though the type was derived from earlier Chola types.&nbsp;&nbsp; I considered B good because I could make out all of the marks and it is not the most common one so it was worth at least the $7 I paid which is more than I&#039;ll say about some of these punchmarked items.&nbsp; I thought I was cheap but even I was willing to pay $7 each for F and G.&nbsp; F is pretty and rated R1 in RIC so maybe it is worth more than average.&nbsp; There are few people who still pay extra for things RIC called R5 even though we all know that those ratings are very faulted. G is an R5 but not terribly attractive so I consider it about equal in value to the prettier and less rare F.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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