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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1644371, member: 19463&quot;]My recent posts on this coin and the page on them I have been writing mainly centers on one feature of the issue: They are a mess.&nbsp; Very few of them are without some fault that I consider major.&nbsp; You can say that these are just the way the things were made so we should overlook things like the pit on Augustus but the fact remains that we see coins selling for $29 and others for $1500 at the same time.&nbsp;&nbsp; This one has better than many detail on the body of the croc and a better than many portrait of Agrippa.&nbsp; It is not nicely surfaced, the croc&#039;s snout is off flan and Augustus is a mess.&nbsp; As it happens one of my coins (farthest right whole coin) has less detail on Agrippa and the croc body but corrects Gil&#039;s coins other faults.&nbsp; Of the coin types I have researched, this is the hardest to grade and be fair to all concerned.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH]237683.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I regret if anyone thinks my pages drive up prices.&nbsp; It is true that there would be less demand for these coins if no one knew they existed but that reduced demand also means there would be no incentive for them to be brought to market.&nbsp; If some of you would stop paying high prices for poor coins we might also slow the trend where dealers think that they can charge twice what a coin was worth last year and still find a buyer.&nbsp; There is a fine line between supply and demand.&nbsp; Everything we do nudges it a bit one way or the other.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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