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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3371768, member: 85693&quot;]I like broken coins - they are usually cheap.&nbsp; Not that I seek them out, but sometimes it is the only way I can get an otherwise unaffordable type.&nbsp; Here is a $7.14 Philip the Arab with an elephant - the chip is so huge it might be more of a &quot;break&quot; - but both the portrait and the pachyderm are (mostly) intact. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]894284[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Philip I <b>Antoninianus</b></b></p><p><b>(248-249 A. D.) </b></p><p><b>Rome Mint </b></p><p>IMP PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / AETERNITAS AVGG, elephant walking left, carrying rider who holds goad &amp; wand</p><p>RIC 58; RSC 17; Sear 8921.</p><p>(2.58 grams / 22 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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