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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2204610, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m back.&nbsp; My first coin is really ugly but not common.&nbsp; At 27mm and 17.17g, I suspect this Carthage dishekel is larger than most of yours but not a quarter the size of the largest ones that few of us will ever see let alone own.&nbsp; A nicer one was sold by CNG for what I consider a deal</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=242690" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=242690" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=242690</a></p><p>until you see the same coin sold for what I would call an offensive number</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=279228" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=279228" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=279228</a></p><p>just showing you that people who shop high end sales don&#039;t care about the rare and the ugly.&nbsp; The strange edge on mine was caused by overfilling the flan mold, I believe, and not trimming the excess.&nbsp; Mine is the heaviest I have found in the little research done so this is consistent. Some may say it is a cast fake but I do not think so.&nbsp; it is a weak strike on a raggedly cast flan by a mint before the First Punic War that was still working out the concept of making coins.&nbsp; Larger bronzes take some skill to make. </p><p><br /></p><p>While the 11 coins I bought as a lot averaged out to $12 each, I consider this one worth a bit more, perhaps $20 (which is good since a couple of them are really junk).&nbsp; When you buy lots, it is not always easy to decide how the allocate the values fairly.&nbsp; The photo has an added reflector to throw a bit of light on the reverse tapering edge.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]429942[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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