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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3329535, member: 19463&quot;]I have shown my better Tiberius as too often but below was my first ex. Grant Edwards about 30 years ago.&nbsp; While far from beautiful or high grade (fine?) it is hard to beat for legends, strike and centering.&nbsp; Grant passed away shortly after I met him in the Washington DC club and his widow asked that members of the club get first crack at his coins.&nbsp; I bought over thirty and wish I had bought many more.&nbsp; Grant taught me to appreciate the good and interesting things a coin had to offer rather than moaning over its faults.&nbsp; I still select coins to buy for the good points and decide how much to pay according to the faults.&nbsp; This coin, in addition to the legends, demonstrates red copper under green patina.&nbsp; It was $28 I do not regret spending.&nbsp; I lived in the Washington DC area for nearly 20 years before I discovered there was an ancient coin club that specialized in ancients.&nbsp; That is a delay I deeply regret.&nbsp; I learned as much or more from the people I met there as I did from books back in those pre-internet days.&nbsp; By the time I left the DC area, I truly hated that town but a really miss those meetings of the Ancient Numismatic Society of Washington.&nbsp;&nbsp; Their website was last updated in 2006 and the last evidence of existence I found online dates to 2016.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]882109[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>While I was typing this, jamesicus posted a nicer one.&nbsp; The mint of that period seems to have cared about centering![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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