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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1500904, member: 19463&quot;]Given the choice between great condition and great style, I take style any thime.&nbsp; Most of these are both.&nbsp; If you are to have just one Caligula, let him look mad; Nero - a fat slob.&nbsp; This Claudius makes hime look a bit more regal and capable than we expect from the popular histories but it is a very nice portrait and a worthy coin.&nbsp; The feature that makes or breaks a Claudius Spes is how well the drapery on Spes is shown to be transparant.&nbsp; If you can see through it with well defined legs, it is a nice coin.&nbsp; The only thing I see as a shortcoming of this coin is the reverse lettering is not of perfectly consistant size.&nbsp; That alone would make me want the coin examined in person by a real expert so it is the kind of coin I would not buy except from a top level dealer.&nbsp; I know enough about photography to know that you can not tell everything you need to know to but a high end coin from a photo.&nbsp; What you have posted makes me want to see your Galba.&nbsp; Quality there is ugly as sin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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