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<p>[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3495072, member: 80804"]How "Worth it" any given coin may be is a call only you can make for yourself. If you're happy with the purchase, you have defined "worth it" for yourself in this situation. These sell across a fairly vast range of pricing - there is no gray sheet in the sense that there is a market which can be specifically gauged by looking at the coin an looking it up on a grid. Depending on where you sell (or, in your case, buy) the price could vary drastically for a coin like your new Maximian. </p><p>As for the portrait not "matching", as the artistic expectations about coin portraiture in general had deteriorated somewhat in the preceding half-century, so had the portraiture on these final-issue Alexandrian tets by the time of the Tetrarchy (and, on another tack, it was Diocletian's deliberate intention that all 4 of the tetrarchs be portrayed looking essentially the same. This was to try to avoid the "cults of personality" that had grown up around popular generals and which had been responsible for so many pretenders, usurpers and general chaos in the 3rd century.) In the 280's/290's coins in general no longer bore dependably "photo realistic" portraits in the way that earlier pieces had done.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lehmansterms, post: 3495072, member: 80804"]How "Worth it" any given coin may be is a call only you can make for yourself. If you're happy with the purchase, you have defined "worth it" for yourself in this situation. These sell across a fairly vast range of pricing - there is no gray sheet in the sense that there is a market which can be specifically gauged by looking at the coin an looking it up on a grid. Depending on where you sell (or, in your case, buy) the price could vary drastically for a coin like your new Maximian. As for the portrait not "matching", as the artistic expectations about coin portraiture in general had deteriorated somewhat in the preceding half-century, so had the portraiture on these final-issue Alexandrian tets by the time of the Tetrarchy (and, on another tack, it was Diocletian's deliberate intention that all 4 of the tetrarchs be portrayed looking essentially the same. This was to try to avoid the "cults of personality" that had grown up around popular generals and which had been responsible for so many pretenders, usurpers and general chaos in the 3rd century.) In the 280's/290's coins in general no longer bore dependably "photo realistic" portraits in the way that earlier pieces had done.[/QUOTE]
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