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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AnYangMan, post: 3225331, member: 87271&quot;]While following a local room-auction online, this lot popped up. I had initially not paid any interest to it, but as it hit the block, I was surprised by the fact that nobody was bidding! I find the patina to be incredibly satisfying and what’s not to love about that such a beautifully thick coin with evidence of the casting sprues! Not to mention the fact that the reverse is slightly off-centre, giving the eagle on the right a slight pain in the chest. And that for a starting price of only 20 euros! So in an impulse I don’t think I’ll come to regret, I clicked on ‘bid’ and a few seconds later I was the happy owner of this 23.67 grams of bronze.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]840697[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It was described as a Ptolemy VIII , but I think recent scholarship attributes this issue to the joint reign of him and his brother Ptolemy VI in the period 170 – 145 BC, right? Any additional information is always appreciated.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, what do you guys think? Would you have bid the 20 euros? Also, I wanna see those hockey pucks, large and small![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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