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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1665701, member: 19463&quot;]Today was a very big day for me with the coin show in Baltimore (3 hours away).&nbsp; I spent way more that planned and even got a couple nice coins.&nbsp; Tomorrow I will be offline most of the day so I&#039;ll rush these first two in this post and do more next week.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both coins are Fausta, wife of Constantine the Great.&nbsp; One is boldly mintmarked from Siscia.&nbsp; The other has a very, very weak strike in the reverse exergue and a flat spot in the obverse hair but still cost more than the Siscia.&nbsp; The same dealer had another like this last with a bold mintmark but very flat head on the reverse figure and was offered at four times the price.&nbsp; I left that one.&nbsp; My coin came with a CNG sales tag from the 1990&#039;s showing it sold then for almost exactly twice what I paid today.&nbsp; I looked it up and saw it was the same coin. </p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH]247045.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]247046.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the questions:</p><p>What made the coin with flat mintmark sell for more than the Siscia specimen with clear mintmark?</p><p>Was the coin I left with bold mintmark but flat head on the reverse figure worth 4X the price?&nbsp;&nbsp; ...any more???</p><p>Why did someone pay twice as much in 1995 than I paid today?&nbsp; </p><p>Would you even buy this defective coin at any price? (Trick question; remember that I bought it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>These were not the nicest coins I got today but they illustrate a couple points I wonder if many will appreciate.&nbsp; Eventually I&#039;ll post some of the others but I am wiped out now.&nbsp; It was a very big day![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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