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Message:: [QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 3557013, member: 44316"]In 1995 a woman from New Jersey saw some ancient coins of mine on consignment at a local coin dealer in Montana and asked him if he bought ancient coins. He said no, but he knew someone who did (me). She gave him her number back in NJ and I got in contact. She told me what she had—a modest collection of coins from a relative. I asked for and eventually got images-- dark photocopies of them, 90 coins, mostly Republican, in groups of 20 photocopied through plastic sheets that held 2x2 holders within (i.e. poor images). But, I could see the group was worth having. I recommended she visit ancient-coin dealers to get offers, gave her some names of dealers not too far away, and said I would probably do better than whatever she could get elsewhere. Time passed. Then I got a communication saying she was coming back to Montana on vacation again and would I pay the X she had been offered?  If so, she would deliver them. I agreed. I got X in cash and met her at the airport. She got cash; I got coins. This was one of the better coins: [ATTACH=full]945615[/ATTACH] Considering the size of the die, this type is usually remarkably well centered. Most examples manage to get both flying birds on the flan and you can see there are not 2 mm left over.[/QUOTE]