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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7439124, member: 19463"]I wanted this type for quite a while before this one came up in a 2020 FSR sale making it one of my last coins before the Covid shutdown. I was able to get it because the centering and edge chunk impairs the goat horns which is, after all, the whole point here. Can a coin be EF and not as nice as most F-VF examples? These tend to be poorly struck on small flans. It hurts when the interesting types were paired with the careless attitude at the mint. I was put on the track seeking one of these when it was posted here on CT by TIF. The point of interest is that this was among the first RR designs that referred to the moneyer's family rather than just using the standard horses reverses. Many of us (certainly me) can live without a complete set of RR denarii with horse drawn chariots but feel the need for those types that went on to explore new design possibilities. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1290809[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Is it time for us to expect Michelle Pfeiffer (or her stunt double) to make a sequel using Python Power?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1290815[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7439124, member: 19463"]I wanted this type for quite a while before this one came up in a 2020 FSR sale making it one of my last coins before the Covid shutdown. I was able to get it because the centering and edge chunk impairs the goat horns which is, after all, the whole point here. Can a coin be EF and not as nice as most F-VF examples? These tend to be poorly struck on small flans. It hurts when the interesting types were paired with the careless attitude at the mint. I was put on the track seeking one of these when it was posted here on CT by TIF. The point of interest is that this was among the first RR designs that referred to the moneyer's family rather than just using the standard horses reverses. Many of us (certainly me) can live without a complete set of RR denarii with horse drawn chariots but feel the need for those types that went on to explore new design possibilities. [ATTACH=full]1290809[/ATTACH] Is it time for us to expect Michelle Pfeiffer (or her stunt double) to make a sequel using Python Power? [ATTACH=full]1290815[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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