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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2646064, member: 19463&quot;]I assume most of you keep records of how much you pay for coins.&nbsp; I do.&nbsp; What do you do when you buy a &#039;large lot&#039; consisting of several coin that are not all the same in type, condition or value?&nbsp; Lets say you bought a group of five coins for $10.&nbsp; Do you feel obligated to list them as $2 each or do you attempt to assign $4 to the best one and $1 to the worst with the total adding up to the same $10?&nbsp; That leave the problem of deciding which are $4 coins and which are $1 ones and I guarantee not all would assign the same distribution of numbers.&nbsp; Do you go for interest, grade, rarity or which one spoke to you an made you buy the bunch even though you had to take the losers, too?&nbsp; This is not a question requiring your answer for my specific case but it is the sort of thing you each might face in selecting coins that &#039;speak&#039; to you. </p><p><br /></p><p>Five coins are below.&nbsp; Lets say they totaled $10 (they may have in 1917).&nbsp; Which strike you as $3-4 &#039;Winna, Winna, Chicken Dinna&#039; (term stolen from Steve) and which are lousy $1 losers?&nbsp; I know some will say to hold off and buy mint state coins but I&#039;m the impatient type.&nbsp; All are Alexandria&nbsp; billon tetradrachms of Commodus except the first.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not in the best shape but good animal and bronze diobol:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]584577[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Pretty but cracked flan - Obverse legend is unlisted missing the M in KOM. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]584580[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Second digit of date is off flan right of standing figure so it is hard to catalog and which letter it is makes a difference in rarity (R1 or R5) .</p><p>[ATTACH=full]584578[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Rare one and very unusual with radiate head.&nbsp; Date LKE less than certain but choices are equally rare (R5).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]584579[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This type is popular with lighthouse but is most common and rough.&nbsp; This could be upgraded with little trouble.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]584582[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Post coins you have bought in a group or any Commodus Provincial.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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