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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 3064341, member: 76086&quot;]After my offer of $255 was declined I received this message from the seller:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The beauty part about empirical reality is that it works without need of consensus. Attached are all the submissions thus far, and a page highlighting the errors in each of the contender coins. Missing earrings are in purple. Missing or smashed crests are in blue, and huge cracks and bits missing are in red. I have to tell you, we are having a laugh riot on this side as well. I even had one excuse with an example that was sent, where I pointed out the earring missing, and the guy said, and I kid you not. &quot;Well that&#039;s just because it wasn&#039;t centered when they stuck it&quot;. OMG, lol, yes my point exactly I said, man, o man. </p><p><br /></p><p>Your welcome to try your hand at it, but as it stands now. This is still the most complete Tetradrachm in existence, with examples rather than idle talk to prove it. Most amazing in my opinion is the horrid &quot;Mint Strike&quot; I left the picture in the case of. I actually approached the NGC after mine was graded, and they said, &quot;It is true that collectors value a complete strike more so than one that has an incomplete strike, but that is not factored into the technical aspects of the grading system&quot;. I nearly fell out of my chair when I read that!!! The NGC doesn&#039;t take into account the completeness of the strike. Take that to the numismatist boards if you would like something to laugh about, that is a scoop and a half, wow, no wonder half the coins in the examples are missing so much receive &quot;mint&quot; status. I didn&#039;t even get into the owl side, most of em were half there or missing legs and letters.</p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. Never mistake a cleaned coin for a complete coin. Cleaning decimates the value of high end coins, any serious collector knows this.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]769035[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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