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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3650866, member: 19463"]My opinion has been covered above. To me, the value of the coin is very low due to the lack of the letters. However, the eye appeal and demand for the type is higher than I will spend on a coin not in a specialty of mine. If it were mine, I would sell it. The coin is at the same time too valuable and not good enough for me. I would rather, for example, have a full legend coin with a hole. </p><p><br /></p><p>For what it is worth, this situation has come up for me before. A coin high on my want list is the Provincial showing Noah and his wife in a box (arc). On the side of the box are the Greek letters spelling Noah. I would want the coin for me to have those letters but most known examples have lost them to wear. I will never own the coin. </p><p><a href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/religion/noah-ark-commemorated-on-roman-coins/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/religion/noah-ark-commemorated-on-roman-coins/" rel="nofollow">https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/religion/noah-ark-commemorated-on-roman-coins/</a></p><p><img src="https://d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Septimus-Severus-193-211AD-AE8-Assaria-os-Apameis-Phrygia-Story-of-Noah.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3650866, member: 19463"]My opinion has been covered above. To me, the value of the coin is very low due to the lack of the letters. However, the eye appeal and demand for the type is higher than I will spend on a coin not in a specialty of mine. If it were mine, I would sell it. The coin is at the same time too valuable and not good enough for me. I would rather, for example, have a full legend coin with a hole. For what it is worth, this situation has come up for me before. A coin high on my want list is the Provincial showing Noah and his wife in a box (arc). On the side of the box are the Greek letters spelling Noah. I would want the coin for me to have those letters but most known examples have lost them to wear. I will never own the coin. [URL]https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/religion/noah-ark-commemorated-on-roman-coins/[/URL] [IMG]https://d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Septimus-Severus-193-211AD-AE8-Assaria-os-Apameis-Phrygia-Story-of-Noah.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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