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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 5000996, member: 19463&quot;]I bought 2 lots for a total of 59 coins from the AK section of Triton XX and have posted the decent ones here repeatedly certainly including the top ten list for 2017.&nbsp; I wish I had bid on more AK lots but most were large groups of coins that I already had so the fact that they were reasonable was overshadowed by my not needing them.&nbsp; I really believe someone made a rash decision to sell those coins in such large groups without singling out the real winners.&nbsp; I sold off several of the lesser coins through John Anthony&#039;s CT sales but still have about 48 of the 59 and consider well over half of them &#039;die with&#039; coins.&nbsp; That is an unusual number for a large lot.&nbsp; CNG issued a limited number of special AK catalogs which I was unable to obtain even though I bought the lots.&nbsp; I am sure most went straight to te trash since the typical CNG customer would not have found interest in those coins.&nbsp; The next couple Triton sales included a page of AK lots extending the coverage to Aemilian but all were in lots too large for my interest in that period so I did not bid. </p><p><br /></p><p>AK coins came with provenance to when AK got the coins which was often several decades ago.&nbsp; Most were decent examples but were collected for the type rather than being high grade.&nbsp; Several of the Alexandrian coins bore high Emmett rarity ratings and were not something seen every day.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the Alexandrian lot Commodus to Caracalla came this Commodus tetradrachm which I considered a keeper. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1200530[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Also included was this much more common type which is very popular and not all that hard to find better.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1200531[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not know the ID of AK but the coins suggest that I would have enjoyed meeting someone who would buy those coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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