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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3250359, member: 96898"]That's exactly how I feel about this coin from the AMCC auction (lot 39): [ATTACH=full]852692[/ATTACH] I've been actively looking for a lifetime tetradrachm for quite a while, and I wanted it to be the highlight of my Macedonian subcollection. This made the search quite hard. Since I was looking for a distinctively special coin, the usual "see one and know them all" tets were out of the game. By browsing through their Macedonian inventory without buying anything, I might even have slightly annoyed a dealer or two (hopefully not too much). Yet, with this one, I finally found what I had been looking for. Not only does it have a beautiful portrait and a nice rooster on the reverse (fun animals are always a bonus) – most importantly, the banker's mark on Heracles' chin makes it, at least in my eyes, desirably unique. The coin looks as though Heracles was wearing war paint. Mainly because of this coin, I decided to alot all of my coin budget for a couple of months to [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER] 's auction. The tetradrachm didn't go for a song, but I'm happy with what I paid for it. Also, I wonder why [USER=37707]@iamtiberius[/USER] decided to part with it?[/QUOTE]