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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2769664, member: 19463&quot;]As I understand it, Dattari bought coins by the bucket at a time when the finders could find few other markets.&nbsp; Most recently we had the absolute dregs of his collection sold by a Gemini auction.&nbsp; I suspect his better items were beautiful but his scholarly works did not care whether a coin came perfect from a pot buried in sand or washed up on the shore of the Nile in a flood.&nbsp; As long as it was different, it made the study collection.&nbsp; What happened to the common duplicates?&nbsp; It would be interesting to know the history of each of our coins but many of what we consider treasures today probably only survived because they contained too little silver to make it worth starting up a fire.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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