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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2060493, member: 19463&quot;]Yesterday FedEx delivered my one win from the last Pecunem sale a full two days ahead of the predicted Thursday.&nbsp; So far since Thanksgiving, most of my deliveries from USPS, UPS and FedEx have been ahead of schedule.&nbsp; It is like they are competing.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Another Septimius Severus from Emesa.&nbsp; I had to have this one since it is the fifth reverse I have with this obverse die which is the one used on &#039;My Favorite Coin&#039;.&nbsp; The coin could have better surfaces having suffered modern cleaning.&nbsp; I&#039;m serious about this problem.&nbsp; Of my five, two are toned and decent surfaced, two are modern style overcleans and one has been raped.&nbsp; The two are known to me to have been in collections for a long time.&nbsp; Today we are batch processing too many coins and sending off to market coins that would not be appreciated fifty years ago when I got &#039;My Favorite Coin&#039;.&nbsp; Will the overcleaned ones look better in another 50 years?&nbsp; Will I care?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]379864[/ATTACH] </p><p>The new coin is in the middle.&nbsp; The reverse legend appears to read MINFP VICT.&nbsp; Barry Murphy had a die dupe with the R normal so that may be damage on my coin but the F is certainly not a standard E. </p><p><a href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/ssemesa2.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/ssemesa2.htm" rel="nofollow">http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/ssemesa2.htm</a></p><p>&nbsp;Minerva types are all scarce from Emesa and this is not the most rare one.&nbsp; I would like to figure out (from die wear) the order in which my five were struck and am always looking for other examples with more clear details whether I can buy them or not.&nbsp; Barry Murphy had a reverse with this obverse that I do not have so I am not yet finished.&nbsp; I have no idea how many more there are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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