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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4251172, member: 19463&quot;]SeptimiusT is referring to my Zenobia tetradrachm that started life as a Flavian / Spes as.&nbsp; The obverse legend is new but the SC on the reverse was modified into the date LE.&nbsp; I paid about $12 as I recall and have received that much fun from the coin.&nbsp; I would be glad to have this Licinius for the same price which actually is more than the coin was worth before they started in on it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1084598[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Before SeptimiusT used my name, I was intending to post agreement with Roma above EXCEPT that I see the value of the coin about 1/10th the figure he suggests.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>+1 - They have come up here before as I recall.&nbsp; Certainly we all make mistakes but some of our big name dealers ARE mistakes.&nbsp; If you handle so many coins so quickly that you can not protect your customers from this kind of trash, you need to rethink your business model.&nbsp; If your employees are not sufficiently skilled, find some that are;&nbsp; if you are working good people at a pace that they miss things and embarrass the company name, slow down and let them do their job properly. </p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the fact that Domitius coins are of poor style:&nbsp; The problem is not a value judgement of style or whether the coin was made by someone with skills but rather whether the style of the coin is the correct one for the coin in question good, bad or indifferent. There are enough people that are happy to pay $2000 for a coin that is worth $10 or $10000 that we can expect more and more of this sort of thing and probably better and better ones as the skill of the toolers improves.&nbsp; We always say to buy coins from people you trust.&nbsp; I say you need to buy expensive coins from people you trust a lot.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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