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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3628100, member: 74834"]Well, here's my FSR win. It's a quite rare coin, a Sasanian hemidrachm. I wanted it because I had one in my first collection, that I assembled before I was twenty years old, then sold because of dire needs. </p><p><br /></p><p>I appreciated Frank downgraded it from EF to VF, because VF it is. It was auctioned as an EF in a Pegasi auction in 2018, I don't know who bought it, naturally, but I paid 20% less. It's not perfect: it looks a little reddish = coppery, and the upper reverse is slightly weak, hence the VF. Still, it is a loveable very thin and delicate coin, 18 mm and 1.50 gr. A bit less than half a drachm, but that seems usual. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]973080[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This picture might be a bit better than Frank's, but the Pegasi picture was just b/w and misses a lot of reverse details that are there on the coin really.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 3628100, member: 74834"]Well, here's my FSR win. It's a quite rare coin, a Sasanian hemidrachm. I wanted it because I had one in my first collection, that I assembled before I was twenty years old, then sold because of dire needs. I appreciated Frank downgraded it from EF to VF, because VF it is. It was auctioned as an EF in a Pegasi auction in 2018, I don't know who bought it, naturally, but I paid 20% less. It's not perfect: it looks a little reddish = coppery, and the upper reverse is slightly weak, hence the VF. Still, it is a loveable very thin and delicate coin, 18 mm and 1.50 gr. A bit less than half a drachm, but that seems usual. [ATTACH=full]973080[/ATTACH] This picture might be a bit better than Frank's, but the Pegasi picture was just b/w and misses a lot of reverse details that are there on the coin really.[/QUOTE]
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