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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2617055, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m with Steve on this.&nbsp; The best coins are the ones I buy not having the slightest idea in advance that it existed or that I might have a chance to get it.&nbsp; My #1 coin of last year was my Anonymous Byzantine overstruck on an 800 year old as of Gordian III.&nbsp; I bought it three seconds after I found it existed but had no idea that there might be such a thing.&nbsp; 2016 was a good year.&nbsp; 2017 will be better if I continue to get surprises NOT on my list.&nbsp; OK, now what am I to ask for?&nbsp; Yes, I would love a John VIII stavraton overstruck on an Aegina turtle but putting that on a want list hardly seems productive.&nbsp; For several years I have want listed a Magnentius Falling Horseman but I just got a (unfortunately barbarous) Decentius instead.&nbsp; Certainly the best coins are those that did not exist until one showed up.&nbsp; Would I like to find the third known Domitian II in a junk box full of Tetrici and barbarous radiates?&nbsp; Sure, why not.&nbsp; When I was a kid my Santa list always ended &quot;...and some surprises.&quot;&nbsp; Some things never change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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