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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 2978578, member: 44357&quot;]My general approach when buying coins has been to find examples that I don&#039;t feel I&#039;ll need to upgrade or that upgrading would be challenging.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, sometimes opportunity comes knocking and a better example of a type that I thought I wouldn&#039;t be able to upgrade falls into my lap. In this circumstance, it was thanks to a solid relationship with a dealer I work with regularly. He held back a coin before the NYINC show for me to take a look at and upon seeing it, I had to have it.</p><p><br /></p><p>As somewhat of a minimalist in my collecting focus, I find it very difficult to have two coins with the same overall iconography on them, even if both are nice. So, I&#039;ll be consigning my previous example to an auction, even though it&#039;s one of the nicer examples and I still really like it (especially for its ex-British Museum pedigree reaching back to the 1920s).</p><p><br /></p><p>My previous coin is a drachm, weighing 5.4 grams, depicting the labyrinth at Knossos with an obverse of Hera:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]732388[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And my new coin is a stater, weighing 11.2 grams. The obverse was designed by a very talented engraver - I&#039;ve envied this die since seeing it in the Boston MFA&#039;s example but never thought I&#039;d have the opportunity to buy one as they simply don&#039;t come around. This coin has been off the market since the 1980s and there arguably hasn&#039;t been a comparable example in the interim:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]732390[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Post coins you&#039;ve already upgraded or any that you&#039;re planning on upgrading.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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