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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 25690480, member: 91820&quot;]I&#039;m with you - I buy and sell and maybe my collection grows by five coins a year.&nbsp; Recently I learned a hard lesson on 12 consignments. It was a reminder, among other things that it is above all condition that sells, not rarity, and that good photographs are critical.&nbsp; But, I got back in the saddle and won that beautiful Aurelian provincial that I just did an article on.&nbsp;&nbsp; In addition to the Aurelian my year to date purchases are: (1) from ebay: an As of Septimius Severus from the period that the Rome mint was only doing bronzes as presentation pieces - RIC 825 (2) Septimius Severus sestertius with Africa reverse, graded EF on the slab, with some roughness, - this and #1 showing that ebay is still a source of great coins (3) Postumus double sestertius, Trier mint - close to RIC 178, ex. rare (4) my first Alexandrian drachm with a beautiful portrait of Hadrian with Nile reclining&nbsp; (5) Hadrian sestertius with Adventus Hiispania reverse, the last two purchased in a sale that featured dozens of sestertii selling at terrific prices - who knew? None of the coins cost more than $325, which is my limit, except as to sestertii from the Rome mint ca. 199AD to 209AD, of which I have found all of four in 21 years - there have been four, possibly five others which went on sale at four figure prices I could not afford at the time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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