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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3300319, member: 56859&quot;]I ran an image and it did find a prior sale that I was unaware of and it found the listing from when I bought it.&nbsp; However, I could have just done a regular search and found the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/elagabalus-nikopolis-athenasnaketree-jpg.627184/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>MOESIA INFERIOR, Nikopolis ad Istrum. Elagabalus</b></p><p>Æ 26 mm, 12.5 gm</p><p>CE 218/9, Novius Rufus, consular legate</p><p>Obv: ...ΠΗ ANTΩNEINOC΄ laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus right</p><p>Rev: VΠ NOBIOV POVΦOV NIKO[ΛOΛITΩN ΠPOC IC TP]; Athena standing left before serpent coiled around olive tree to left; shield on ground behind her</p><p>Ref: Hristova &amp; Jekov 8.26.4.7 (same as last illus. Specimen); Varbanov 3906 (same dies as illus.); Moushmov 1384</p><p><br /></p><p>The prior sale 2007 (listing; it was unsold on an overly optimistic estimate) which was not listed when I bought the coin, although I may have seen it and not noted it when researching comps:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=391231" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=391231" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=391231</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The listing from when I bought it:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3669467" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3669467" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3669467</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The image search has the potential to be valuable but will depend on ACsearch adding thousands of old catalog images and data.&nbsp; Even then, if a coin is not a super common type, you can still just search the regular way-- it just takes more effort.&nbsp; I can see how it might be easier to search for prior sales (and possibly die matches?) for coins that were issued in huge numbers-- it would save you from manually looking at every image.</p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps it could be of some use for identifying unknown coins.&nbsp; That might be interesting to test.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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