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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1642442, member: 19463&quot;]I assume your 190 number refers to modern coins only.&nbsp; I suspect there are that many ancients (almost all bees) if you count &#039;minor types&#039; or small devices added in the field to some issues as a coded reference to a magistrate or date.&nbsp; For example the bee is easily missed if you are looking at the elephants:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=432082" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=432082" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=432082</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Also some are beyond rare and expensive, as you said.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure if this really is a horsefly as listed but I won&#039;t be buying the coin in any event due to the price:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=631447" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=631447" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=631447</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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