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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3240924, member: 82322&quot;]Here is a similar Didius Julianus in similar condition that sold for about $700: <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=319401" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=319401" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=319401</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I thought it might be possible the coin was genuine but heavily tooled.&nbsp; So I asked the collector who gifted it to the mechanic who started the thread.&nbsp; He told me that he got the Didius with a group of Roman bronzes from a retired professor and he gave them all away to people he thought would like them.&nbsp; I have no reason to doubt the story and would not discount the Didius without microscopic inspection.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you do a CNG search <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?PAGE_NUM=&amp;PAGE=1&amp;TABS_TYPE=3&amp;CONTAINER_TYPE_ID=1&amp;IS_ADVANCED=1&amp;ITEM_DESC=james+cain&amp;ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?PAGE_NUM=&amp;PAGE=1&amp;TABS_TYPE=3&amp;CONTAINER_TYPE_ID=1&amp;IS_ADVANCED=1&amp;ITEM_DESC=james+cain&amp;ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1" rel="nofollow">by the name of the collector</a> you will see his amazing Herakles collection, many of which sold in Triton XI.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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