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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1762157, member: 19463&quot;]I was not planning to post this until tomorrow but another thread provided the information that Steve would not see it if I waited so here goes:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I did not have a Marius before last week.&nbsp; He is one of the least important people in Roman history being just a usurper after the death of one Gallic Emperor (Postumus , technically a usurper) before the reign of another Gallic Emperor (Victorinus, all Gallics were technically usurpers).&nbsp; History says he reigned three days but the number of his coins suggests three months is closer.&nbsp; He reigned in a time they were making as many coins in a day at a mint as any other time so his coins are not nearly as rare as some people would like you to believe but he still is worth more than the common Gallics (but not Laelianus or Domitianus to be sure).&nbsp; I had never before found one in a price bracket I would accept and benefited from the good practice of a dealer selling for a reasonable advance over what he paid rather than trying to milk every last cent out of every sale.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]279049[/ATTACH]</p><p>Often I leave a dealer with a comment like &#039;until next time&#039; but dealers who sell&nbsp; decent coins for decent prices tend to get visited again rather than only when desperation drives.&nbsp; This is not the nicest Marius I&#039;ve seen.&nbsp; It is not even the nicest Marius that the dealer had for sale.&nbsp; It is, however, the one that followed me home.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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