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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 1500949, member: 39084&quot;]I share your concern about pictures not being 100% representative.&nbsp; The dealer through whom I purchase coins has been in the business 40 years and can spot tooling and other manipulation in a nanosecond, so I&#039;m comfortable relying on his judgement implicitly.&nbsp; In addition, he physically examines any coin that he recommends to me so that he doesn&#039;t just rely on pictures.&nbsp; The Claudius sestertius went through his usual due diligence process and in fact has a pretty good provenance.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for Galba, he is certainly a difficult emperor.&nbsp; If your question above (&quot;What you have posted makes me want to see your Galba&quot;) is referring to a Galba bronze, my first posting had been a recently acquired Galba sestertius with a slight double-strike on the reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]192581.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I like the portrait quality here, although my Galba aureus doesn&#039;t exhibit the same level of portrait quality -- aureii of Galba are notoriously difficult to find in high quality.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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