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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;romismatist, post: 7471895, member: 44106&quot;]In my other collecting area, the (more recent) coinage of East Frisia, there was a silver 1 1/2 Reichstaler of Georg Christian (1660-1665) which was listed by Kuenker in the 2004 Kennepohl auction as an &quot;unpubliziertes unikum&quot; (ie unique and unpublished). It went for EUR 56,000. Since, then, several others have come out of the woodwork in auctions by Heritage Auctions and a Gorny &amp; Mosch one in 2019 (<a href="https://auktionen.gmcoinart.de/Auktion/KatalogArchiv?intAuktionsId=745&amp;los=1564935" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://auktionen.gmcoinart.de/Auktion/KatalogArchiv?intAuktionsId=745&amp;los=1564935" rel="nofollow">https://auktionen.gmcoinart.de/Auktion/KatalogArchiv?intAuktionsId=745&amp;los=1564935</a>) where the same coin &quot;only&quot; hammered EUR 14,000. I have also seen an example struck in gold. The Gorny &amp; Mosch example: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1293901[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Returning to ancients, there are also a couple of nebulous usurpers with only a few coins to their name. There has been a lot of speculation around Bonosus and Proculus in particular. The former appears to have been a barbaric type while there are only two coins of Proculus in existence, one from a hoard and another found by a metal detectorist in the UK. Both share the same obverse and reverse dies:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1293905[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I guess this highlights one of the dangers of collecting very rare coins which are avidly sought by others. You may wind up paying a fantastic price for the only one in existence, then find that its value drops substantially when more enter the market. Like many of the other CT&#039;ers, I enjoy researching rare variants which are often overlooked by the market, and as a result, are more affordable <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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