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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1938980, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with the above.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not so agreeable with this part.&nbsp; I see the terms used more interchangeably with prutah being any big coin and lepton being the crude little things of whatever style.&nbsp; I do not understand the matter but as evidence I&#039;ll point out the following vCoin seller who has wheel type prutah.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/amphora_coins/3/Default.aspx?store_display_type=ancient#!/category/hasmoneanmaccabean/?idCategory=106&amp;searchDisplayAsList=False&amp;searchMaxRecords=100&amp;store_order_by=name_asc&amp;countitems=24&amp;changeDisplayList=&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/amphora_coins/3/Default.aspx?store_display_type=ancient#!/category/hasmoneanmaccabean/?idCategory=106&amp;searchDisplayAsList=False&amp;searchMaxRecords=100&amp;store_order_by=name_asc&amp;countitems=24&amp;changeDisplayList=&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/amphora_coins/3/Default.aspx?store_display_type=ancient#!/category/hasmoneanmaccabean/?idCategory=106&amp;searchDisplayAsList=False&amp;searchMaxRecords=100&amp;store_order_by=name_asc&amp;countitems=24&amp;changeDisplayList=&amp;page=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Before you upprice all your coins you might want to realize that most of those offered here are either rare varieties or full legend examples.&nbsp; The seller does offer cheap junk via eBay as well.&nbsp; My three shown above came from him as&nbsp; part of a bulk lot of eight prutah I bought a couple years ago (for about $50).&nbsp; He still sells lots starting at under a dollar a coin (not very nice ones at a dollar).&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/amphoracoins/m.html?item=201105231295&amp;hash=item2ed2ce4dbf&amp;pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2562" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ebay.com/sch/amphoracoins/m.html?item=201105231295&amp;hash=item2ed2ce4dbf&amp;pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2562" rel="nofollow">http://www.ebay.com/sch/amphoracoins/m.html?item=201105231295&amp;hash=item2ed2ce4dbf&amp;pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;rt=nc&amp;_trksid=p2047675.l2562</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Currently he is offering a real junk lot of 101+ anchor/star coins about which he says, &quot;<b>All coins (except a rare odd stray) are small prutah denomination with obverse: anchor, reverse: star.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>I&#039;ll also point out that this seller (Amphoracoins) has a huge price range for what many/most would see as the same coin.&nbsp; He prices by grade and minor variety.&nbsp; If you are willing to pay a huge price for just any coin because it was mentioned in the Bible, you might want to buy one of these lots and give away the 100 worst ones.&nbsp; I&#039;m not a collector of these but every so often I have to fight the urge to buy a bunch and see how many I can ID.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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