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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1960561, member: 19463&quot;]Part of the appeal of this series is that there were so many dies and types that most collectors will have something unique or at least very rare but the mainstream does not care because only a few coins are high grade.&nbsp; The Virtus is far above average for a rarity with more being like my first two.&nbsp; These coins were struck by the same culture that gave us Pescennius Niger which is of similar scarcity but sells for many times the price because that ruler does not come in a low price Rome mint version.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>A catalog of Martin&#039;s collection would make RIC look like an amateur effort. Currently the easily available references on Eastern Domna are all private collections not the least of which is the now dispersed Barry Murphy collection which is still nowhere near what Martin has shown on Coin Talk:</p><p><a href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/jdalex1.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/jdalex1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/jdalex1.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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