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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1984952, member: 19463"]If you are a cheapskate collector it is not a bad idea to study up on which rulers coins are regularly perfect and which ones are rarely even presentable.  Coins of CIIG are common but perfect ones are not so they are worth buying when you see one for only double the 'regular' price.  The same goes for Quintillian but rulers like Severus Alexander are usually pretty well made so there is not as much premium when you go from nice to perfect.  We have shown a lot of CIIG coins here but we have yet to show a gem.  This will soon change when Aurelian straightens out the mints with his reform.  His first issues are as poor as CIIG but things straighten out quickly.  <a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=claudius+gothicus&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=claudius+gothicus&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=claudius+gothicus&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0&company=</a>Scroll through the above 1400 coins and see just how few are really nice in strike, legend, workmanship and surfaces.  The gold ones all are perfect.  I suspect that line ran at 1/10 the speed of the ants.[/QUOTE]