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<p>[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 2078696, member: 42034"]Although as a newbie Aes Grave buyer I was looking for an As, your Semis is now extremly nice & interesting. The "wheel" coins are practically impossible to obtain in As form. Also 135.41 grams is nothing to sneeze at. Today, I might provide some competition for such a piece...</p><p><br /></p><p>I may have posted this somewhere else but last year some very interesting early Roman Aes Graves sold for what I thought were cheap prices. Possibly this is because of the meltdown in Roman bronze coin prices? However these items are so neat that I can't possibly exist only having one. Of course the problem is that one buys from a foreign auction and it's pretty much a guess until the coin shows up. I wonder if these have gone thru the tampering that apparently struck Roman Imperial bronzes have? I'd guess not as they're much less popular items?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 2078696, member: 42034"]Although as a newbie Aes Grave buyer I was looking for an As, your Semis is now extremly nice & interesting. The "wheel" coins are practically impossible to obtain in As form. Also 135.41 grams is nothing to sneeze at. Today, I might provide some competition for such a piece... I may have posted this somewhere else but last year some very interesting early Roman Aes Graves sold for what I thought were cheap prices. Possibly this is because of the meltdown in Roman bronze coin prices? However these items are so neat that I can't possibly exist only having one. Of course the problem is that one buys from a foreign auction and it's pretty much a guess until the coin shows up. I wonder if these have gone thru the tampering that apparently struck Roman Imperial bronzes have? I'd guess not as they're much less popular items?[/QUOTE]
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