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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2464084, member: 19463&quot;]The people who would be most likely to buy a coin like the Commodus are the same people most likely not to even look at slabbed coins.&nbsp; This same coin in a slab might not have attracted any more interest than it did.&nbsp; Had the coin been marketed in a venue that attracts collectors after this sort of thing rather than overpriced slabbed antoniniani, I doubt you would have made the statement:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Certainly I would not have paid more than 10% what you did but that is largely why I don&#039;t look at HA sales.&nbsp; Those I know who are looking for $ 4digit Provincials are more likely to seek a coin like this in a Triton sale.&nbsp; Again certainly, cheapskates like me would be more likely to buy the coin in lower grade from neither of those big sources either.&nbsp; My most recently posted here coin even a little similar is this much lower grade and much more common Stratoniceia AE38 Caracalla which I bought largely for the countermark (common mark but a nice strike) probably for more than you would pay for such an ugly coin.&nbsp; A nicer one (unless you like the countermark):</p><p><a href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=249690" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=249690" rel="nofollow">http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=249690</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]517120[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I apologize. Obviously you were offended by my post.&nbsp; I thought I was saying nice things about the coin but you did not see it that way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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