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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2117656, member: 42773&quot;]No Doug, it was not in a box that you had examined. In fact it wasn&#039;t in a display or box at all. Bill and I got chatting with Tom Wood of Ephesus Numismatics, and he gave us a very interesting lecture on <i>minima</i>. I was going to buy a couple but they were not for sale. (Why do dealers put price tags on coins in their personal collections? Once a dealer always a dealer I suppose.)</p><p><br /></p><p>So I asked to look at his other trays, and he said, &quot;By the way, I have these coins that recently came from G-N that I haven&#039;t had a chance to attribute and price.&quot; That&#039;s when we discovered the Gaius. Bill searched coinarchives for comparisons and we settled on a price. Because of Bill&#039;s attribution, Tom and I both knew what the coin was and he offered me a price that made us both happy.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only loser in the transaction was G-N, but I sincerely hope they don&#039;t go bankrupt for dispossessing themselves of a few hundred bucks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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