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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1402889, member: 19463&quot;]This hoard photo looks nasty.&nbsp; It will be interesting to see what the BM professionals can do in conservation.&nbsp; I see that a museum group wants to buy them for display over there rather than selling them on the market.&nbsp; Usually I do not support such ideas but if the coins are all trash, their best use might be as a lump.&nbsp; If you read BMCRE volume V hoard lists your eye gets caught on one entry of 5000 denarii all of Clodius Albinus found near Lyon.&nbsp; These would all be his issue as Augustus.&nbsp;&nbsp; I suspect they would be a mint bag full (or pot) and have no idea whether they are in a museum or make up 90% of the known mint state coins of this variety on the market.&nbsp; It is in no way impossible that a pot of EID MAR denarii is out there.&nbsp; I suspect 5000 of them could be absorbed in the market without dropping the price below $10,000.&nbsp; Demand drives price and a lot of us who know we will never have one would put it on our active want list and decide we really did want to buy one rather than go on vacation for the next few years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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