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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 3365548, member: 43872&quot;]Have you checked eBay?&nbsp; Now that you have brought this up there will probably be lots of them show up having been &quot;hidden&quot; in China.</p><p><br /></p><p>More seriously, that is a very interesting post, well researched.&nbsp; What made you notice that one obscure reference was missing?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It seems to me the confusion with REG IARTI is unlikely unless the first person to be confused had a very poor specimen in front of him or her.&nbsp; It would require so many letters to be confused by someone who likely was a keen student of the coins to begin with.&nbsp; If such a mistake were made, it would be more likely that a rare coin would be mistaken to be a more common variety than a known variety be mistaken for an otherwise unknown one.&nbsp; It seems more likely that a very rare, even unique, specimen was lost through the ravages of time, war, fires, earthquakes, etc. or that, if it still exists, it is hidden unappreciated in a collection passed down to non-collector heirs.&nbsp; Or possibly it is known and appreciated by its owner so much that it has simply never been put on any market.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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