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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 2247340, member: 44357&quot;]Yours is a very attractive example! I managed to finally upgrade mine, which is why I&#039;m selling my current coin. These are the auction house&#039;s images, and I&#039;m looking forward to getting it in hand to take my own <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1028.photobucket.com/albums/y342/AncientJoe/1833588l_zpsvv4epx5l.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Also, this coin is a good example of why it&#039;s necessary to price coins for yourself using ACSearch/CoinArchives and personal preference. I had to pay 14x the illogically low estimate (a personal record ratio!) but there were several other floor bidders in around the same price, and it still sold for less than I was willing to spend. Auction houses sometimes have artificially low or artificially high estimates, and sometimes they have just utterly <i>wrong </i>estimates.</p><p><br /></p><p>I priced my new example at 3x my previous one, which I think is about right compared to where others have sold. It&#039;s tough when this issue is notoriously tight on the flan and off-center, so looking for a strong strike, nice detail, and overall good quality makes for a lengthy search for an otherwise common coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>As another comparison, this coin sold last year for 2x my purchase (the highest for a Trajan&#039;s Column denarius) and I think it&#039;s only a bit nicer than my previous coin (maybe 1.5-2x), but priced 7x as much:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1028.photobucket.com/albums/y342/AncientJoe/2013002_zpsfqverox3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is a solid, high-grade coin, and a much better photograph, but the column is tight on the flan, the obverse legend is considerably off-center, the edge splits are distracting (to me), and there&#039;s a scratch beneath the bust. Granted, it only takes two bidders to want a coin badly enough.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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