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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 1932753, member: 44357&quot;]Thanks! I compiled a &quot;condition census&quot; of other examples which have come to market in the last ~15 years when trying to come up with a price and my dealer confirmed that this coin is among the finest. There is one fairly well-known example which has a bit better detail that last sold in 2002 but it has distracting scratches and deposits which would bother me.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s certainly the nicest that&#039;s been available in quite a long time, and while I did have to pay a strong price for it, we expected it to go considerably higher, which is always a good feeling.</p><p><br /></p><p>The legends are a bit of a mystery to me as well - I too wonder how they managed to mis-strike part of them but not all. I haven&#039;t seen that before quite like it is on this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also learned quite a bit while working on the writeup. I assumed that the figure on the bottom was Neptune because of the dolphin. Indeed, several auction records have flipped the two as well. I&#039;d love to have seen the Port in all of its original glory as I imagine that statue of the river god Tiber would have been <i>extremely </i>impressive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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