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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3012167, member: 19463&quot;]Asses of Nero and Galba are not all that hard to find in what I would call mid-grade, acceptable.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had been considering starting a thread on the question of condition.&nbsp; Modern collectors are obsessed with lack of wear. With ancients, there is a lot more to consider than wear.&nbsp; Things like surface and strike are much more important to me than the wear on a coin.&nbsp; For example, this was my first Caligula as.&nbsp; For wear it is VF but the surfaces are horrid.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]747164[/ATTACH] </p><p>I upgraded it with a coin worn to fine with better surfaces.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]747165[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Which should be kept?&nbsp; Both obviously.&nbsp; I really would like one with the obverse legend of the first (DIVI AVG PRON) but decent surfaces.&nbsp; Wear does not bother me.&nbsp; I collect coins.&nbsp; Coins wear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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