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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1893287, member: 19463&quot;]The only Greek coin I bought at Baltimore was this silver triobol of Phokis from the mid 5th century BC.&nbsp; I liked the coin but like it more now that I can throw it up here as an example of something I harp upon here over and over.&nbsp; Some coin dealers try too hard to make windfall profits and some of you are rewarding them.&nbsp; I do too but not on the same coins.&nbsp; This is not an exceptional example of this coin.&nbsp; (TIF will say it is defective because there is very similar coin with a boar&#039;s head instead of Artemis.)&nbsp; This issue is not famous for being well centered and this one loses two of the four letters on the reverse.&nbsp; &nbsp; All in all it is a collector grade coin and the sort of thing I buy.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]322941[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>...and now, the rest of the story.&nbsp; The coin happens to appear on acsearch:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=695262" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=695262" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=695262</a></p><p>In 2013 it failed to sell in an auction where it carried an estimate of $400.&nbsp; The failed seller&#039;s photo added a great deal of contrast emphasizing one major scratch and blanking out a few others.&nbsp; If you go on acsearch and decide that this coin type in this condition is worth $400 based on this listing, you may pay too much.&nbsp; &nbsp; The dealer I bought this from got the coin as part of a lot for failed sellers.&nbsp; I have no idea how much he paid for it but I accepted his price of $125.&nbsp; Considering the flaws, I do not consider this a great bargain.&nbsp; I have absolutely no problem with dealers who offer really nice coins at high prices.&nbsp; If it did not have the scratches and centering problems, this coin might be worth the $400 (maybe?) but the fact is that it is not perfect and should not sell for anything approaching that price.&nbsp;&nbsp; I may have paid too much but I suspect a couple of you would have gone higher for a coin with the pig rather than Artemis. Right?</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=phokis&amp;view_mode=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ol=1&amp;sort=&amp;c=&amp;a=&amp;l=#10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=phokis&amp;view_mode=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ol=1&amp;sort=&amp;c=&amp;a=&amp;l=#10" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=phokis&amp;view_mode=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ol=1&amp;sort=&amp;c=&amp;a=&amp;l=#10</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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