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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1811230, member: 19463&quot;]That Flavian Amphitheater is a great example of a coin worth its ridiculously high price.&nbsp; A worn or corroded one without all the fine detail in the building and crowd just would not be the same.&nbsp; Whatever conservation work that was done was done well.&nbsp; I have not seen many of these coins and am in no position to say if there are better ones but I have to wonder how another coin could be an upgrade to this one. </p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday I saw a program on the National Geographic channel on the history of the 1933 US 20 gold (the scrapped up and mishandled&nbsp; worst known sold for $6+ million but it is the only one even remotely legal to own even though it will not be likely to sell again in my life).&nbsp; If I had $6 mil to spend on coins, the 1933 would not be on my want list.&nbsp; The sestertius would.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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