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<p>[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 1969925, member: 42034"]Oh yes, that's a Price 3623, I'd recognize it instantly. Despite many years collecting I've never been able to get an Alexander: although I had a far miss with perhaps the most ultimate of his coins*.</p><p><br /></p><p>In researching Alex tets on Wildwinds, I ran across your picture some time ago & thought it was such a beautiful piece that I saved the Wildwinds pix and notes to my computer months ago. I always wondered who owned this piece & now I know.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also your photography is superb and very illustrative. Also due to a psuedo rare brain malfunction, I am trying to aqcuire a lifetime issue of one of these, in nice EF, from the Babylon mint. There is a superb EF one coming up for auction, not of superb style (the nose is too big) but with the obverse off-center. While I can take the nose, the grade is really nice, <b>BEING OFF-CENTER BOTHERS ME A LOT!!!!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>What do you think? Is there any hope of finding a centered one? Should I submit a cheap bid for the choice but slightly off-centered one? While I am not a patient person, due to my extreme grinding poverty, I am used to waiting a long time [years, decades even] to get pieces. I'll proably also send you a private message, due to my impatience.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for any help you can provide to an completely Alexanderless collector.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">*N.B. the ultimate piece, in my malformed opinion, which was brought to a local coin club meeting by an old collector was the Alexander dek.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 1969925, member: 42034"]Oh yes, that's a Price 3623, I'd recognize it instantly. Despite many years collecting I've never been able to get an Alexander: although I had a far miss with perhaps the most ultimate of his coins*. In researching Alex tets on Wildwinds, I ran across your picture some time ago & thought it was such a beautiful piece that I saved the Wildwinds pix and notes to my computer months ago. I always wondered who owned this piece & now I know. Also your photography is superb and very illustrative. Also due to a psuedo rare brain malfunction, I am trying to aqcuire a lifetime issue of one of these, in nice EF, from the Babylon mint. There is a superb EF one coming up for auction, not of superb style (the nose is too big) but with the obverse off-center. While I can take the nose, the grade is really nice, [B]BEING OFF-CENTER BOTHERS ME A LOT!!!![/B] What do you think? Is there any hope of finding a centered one? Should I submit a cheap bid for the choice but slightly off-centered one? While I am not a patient person, due to my extreme grinding poverty, I am used to waiting a long time [years, decades even] to get pieces. I'll proably also send you a private message, due to my impatience. Thanks for any help you can provide to an completely Alexanderless collector. [SIZE=3]*N.B. the ultimate piece, in my malformed opinion, which was brought to a local coin club meeting by an old collector was the Alexander dek.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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