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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2015137, member: 19463&quot;]Did I mention that I always bought a lot of coins from Jonathan and always like him until he discovered the slab.&nbsp; At Baltimore, after not having bought a single coin from him for ten years, he called me by name and ask if I would like to see the boxes.&nbsp; These were the coins not worth slabbing (most had faults like the ones I showed).&nbsp; Five of my 13 new coins came from him; he was the dealer mentioned in the first post of this thread.&nbsp; I do not know if he has always had these lesser coins but I have been skipping him because of the slabs and his prices.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The Plautius comes in two versions.&nbsp; Yours is among the finest example of the one with serpents at the face that I have seen.&nbsp; I have the less scarce version without serpents.&nbsp; Mine, as most, is poorly struck or centered on the reverse so you lose one or more of the four horses.&nbsp; Style also varies with some being a bit crude in the face.&nbsp; Yours is fine.&nbsp; I could never call a coin XF when the face of Aurora was missing and the nose of Medusa was this flat but it is a great coin and excellent example of a&nbsp; lesser grade coin worth more than 99% of the real XF&#039;s out there.&nbsp; Both of my lower end coins are shown on my favorites page.&nbsp; <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fim37.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f37.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f37.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f37.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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