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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8242746, member: 110350"]This, by the way, is the CNG 2019 specimen, "from the Michael Prieur Collection," of the type I just purchased: [ATTACH=full]1451067[/ATTACH] Obviously not the same specimen as mine (which is on a smaller flan), although I think it's definitely an obverse die-match. I'm not sure about the reverse. The obverse appears slightly superior to mine (unless that's a product of the photographs), but some of the details on the reverse (like the murex shell and the club) are actually clearer on my specimen. Since the CNG coin came from the Prieur Collection and the Freeman & Sear auction before that, and since Prieur apparently knew of only one example, then it seems to me that logically it must be the same coin as Prieur 1533, even though that catalog number isn't illustrated in Prieur (see [USER=86498]@Terence Cheesman[/USER]'s comment). Which would make my coin only the second known specimen rather than the third. As they say, though, there's nothing more common than a rare ancient coin![/QUOTE]