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<p>[QUOTE="stevex6, post: 1960189, member: 44183"]<span style="color: #0000ff">Curious? => where are those from, vcoins? (they are both fairly nice)</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... I went and checked and discovered that they were both in the same cost-range as the following coin ... </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Ummm, how 'bout this cool Syracuse offering from Dionysus I's period:</span></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=264417" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=264417" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #8000ff">http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=264417</span></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... sweet (super-sweet, but perhaps a bit too pricey?) </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">However, the two dolphin drachms that you mentioned are bigger coins (more like your attic owls) ... the sweet crisp example that I suggested is a smaller coin, so I'm not sure that it would do it for ya? (if I had to choose one of the dolphins I would choose the second example, for it has a better obverse legend and slightly better dolphins ... ummm, but the glare on the photo makes me wonder what it'll really look like in-hand?) ........ hmmm, but the first example seems to have slightly better surfaces (wow, it's a toss-up)</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... they're all winners!! (sorry I couldn't have been more help ... oh, but picking your favourite is the fun part ... I'm sure that you'll figure it out)</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="stevex6, post: 1960189, member: 44183"][COLOR=#0000ff]Curious? => where are those from, vcoins? (they are both fairly nice)[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]... I went and checked and discovered that they were both in the same cost-range as the following coin ... [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]Ummm, how 'bout this cool Syracuse offering from Dionysus I's period:[/COLOR] [URL='http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=264417'][COLOR=#8000ff]http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=264417[/COLOR][/URL] [COLOR=#0000ff]... sweet (super-sweet, but perhaps a bit too pricey?) [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]However, the two dolphin drachms that you mentioned are bigger coins (more like your attic owls) ... the sweet crisp example that I suggested is a smaller coin, so I'm not sure that it would do it for ya? (if I had to choose one of the dolphins I would choose the second example, for it has a better obverse legend and slightly better dolphins ... ummm, but the glare on the photo makes me wonder what it'll really look like in-hand?) ........ hmmm, but the first example seems to have slightly better surfaces (wow, it's a toss-up)[/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]... they're all winners!! (sorry I couldn't have been more help ... oh, but picking your favourite is the fun part ... I'm sure that you'll figure it out)[/COLOR][/QUOTE]
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