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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3836938, member: 19463&quot;]TIF is 100% right on this matter.&nbsp; Specialists get their pulse up when they discover a dot in a slightly different place and some of them have enough money to drive up a price when two of them butt heads.&nbsp; Many of us have one or more coins that are the only one known when you come to an exact match.&nbsp; We post them here and most of us, if truly honest, would post a &#039;yawn&#039; emogee.&nbsp; A &#039;significantly&#039; different design is not Victory left rather than right.&nbsp; It is not an officina not listed in RIC for that type/mint/issue.&nbsp; Many of us deserve the yawn when we post a completely different coin but from a series that no one else here collects. There are books on specialties so obscure that few will ever see let alone own (I&#039;m thinking Brian Kritt here) and a thousand specialties where rarities outnumber common coins that most will never touch.&nbsp; There are however many collectors who would rather have one of ten thousand perfect examples of a common coin that the one and only surviving coin that is only VF.&nbsp; It is the hobby as we see it practiced today. </p><p>Kyzikos tetartemorion 7mm 0.2g 550-480 BC</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1019028[/ATTACH] </p><p>same size but maybe a century later</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1019029[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Neither of these is common and nether interests very many people.&nbsp; I paid a premium for these because they are not exactly like most I see.&nbsp; The chance of selling them for a profit during my lifetime is slim.&nbsp; Do either of these exist in the number shown on acsearch for the Hermes?&nbsp; Does some dealer out there have a sack of these to meter out on the market one at a time?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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