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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1846452, member: 19463&quot;]I believe we could go VF in grade as long as you are OK with the coin likely being fully processed and retoned to the current color.&nbsp; I believe it is RIC 59 page 579 listed as C2 (or every museum they checked has one degree of common).&nbsp; Rarity is not a major factor on such a coin when it comes to price since so few people are trying to get a complete set of workshops.&nbsp; Clarity is a big deal.&nbsp; The photo makes the obverse legend hard to read so the coin could be better than it appears.&nbsp; If so, the coin would bring $10 where I live and $20 in a large city (just like my house would be worth more were it situated in a city with high property values).&nbsp;&nbsp; It is an excellent beginner coin of the most popular and most common of the later emperors.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]307854[/ATTACH]</p><p>My example for comparison is slightly later when they deleted one of the standards on the reverse and a bit of the weight of the coin.&nbsp; I paid $5 in 2000.&nbsp; Yours is nicer because of the more clear mintmark.</p><p><br /></p><p>For those more into such trivia:&nbsp; This coin brings back memories.&nbsp; It was one I bought from Victor Failmezger from the large lot he bought from NFA&#039;s sale of the Bavarian collection.&nbsp; It came with its original handmade envelope from WWI vintage.&nbsp; The theory was that the collection was put together from donations to disabled veterans or someone similarly lacking in funds.&nbsp; No coin was worth much but a great deal of care was shown in crafting the envelopes and writing up&nbsp; the collection.&nbsp; I bought some nicer ones from Victor at $10 but he later had a half&nbsp; price sale of the ones that would not move.&nbsp; This was from that last bunch.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac16.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac16.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac16.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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