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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4523332, member: 19463"]That was a one and only occurrence that I did not understand at the time and am still mystified by. It was in the days when no one in their right mind specialized in Septimius Severus but I only collected the Eastern coins as a specialty. The whole thing would not have happened had the coin count not been exactly the same as the year date of the COS II 'Emesa' coins. I was then corresponding heavily with the late Roger Bickford-Smith (CNG 47 sold his lesser coins but the BM took the best off the top). Roger was buying what showed up in the UK and taught me what I know about the Eastern coins. Had the coins been all 194 issues, I would have bought many but I had no idea there were 194 coins involved; I expected a couple dozen at best. Had I known they were just a huge pile of Rome mint coins, I would have called back and said I did not need to see them. I do not know who sent them since my daughter did not recall the name. I just checked my back catalogs and CNG sales that year included no 'Emesa' mint coins. That was standard then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4523332, member: 19463"]That was a one and only occurrence that I did not understand at the time and am still mystified by. It was in the days when no one in their right mind specialized in Septimius Severus but I only collected the Eastern coins as a specialty. The whole thing would not have happened had the coin count not been exactly the same as the year date of the COS II 'Emesa' coins. I was then corresponding heavily with the late Roger Bickford-Smith (CNG 47 sold his lesser coins but the BM took the best off the top). Roger was buying what showed up in the UK and taught me what I know about the Eastern coins. Had the coins been all 194 issues, I would have bought many but I had no idea there were 194 coins involved; I expected a couple dozen at best. Had I known they were just a huge pile of Rome mint coins, I would have called back and said I did not need to see them. I do not know who sent them since my daughter did not recall the name. I just checked my back catalogs and CNG sales that year included no 'Emesa' mint coins. That was standard then.[/QUOTE]
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