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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 3743870, member: 97383&quot;]Plumbata, I took a serious fancy to Roman Provincial Tets after buying Michel Prieur&#039;s book <b>The Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms and Their Fractions</b>, 17 or 18 years ago, &amp; my interest intensified when I bought a copy of Richard McAlee&#039;s book <b>The Coins of Roman Antioch</b>, 12 years ago. I don&#039;t know how many of these Tets are in my collection presently, but it&#039;s quite a few <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Near the end of the year I&#039;ll do a piece count when the weather gets rough &amp; I&#039;m house-bound. Over the years I&#039;ve sold many rare &amp; handsome provincial Tets because they were plentiful &amp; not very expensive, but times have changed <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. More collectors are scrambling for nice looking examples today &amp; prices are escalating. With McAlee selling many coins from his personal collection &amp; the Prieur collection still being liquidated many collectors &amp; dealers are going wild for these coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Yesterday CNG sold another large group from Prieur&#039;s collection. Although there were many bargains some coins sold many times over estimate, like the handsome Tet pictured below, photo courtesy of CNG.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1004125[/ATTACH] </p><p>Geta as Caesar, AD 198-209, AR 27 mm, 13.18 gm, 12 h. Prieur 195 (this coin). With an estimate of $500.00 this coin sold for $2,360.00 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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