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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1076593, member: 19463&quot;]One of the things some of us have trouble accepting is that Byzantine values don&#039;t play by the same rules as Roman.&nbsp; Some of the most valuable Byzantine coins are plain old ugly, crude, scrappy and next to impossile to read.&nbsp; With Romans there is a real bias toward high grade coins but many Byzantine coins are not available in high grade.&nbsp; The OP coin here is exceptionally high grade with full faces on both figures and worth more than my weak example.&nbsp; These are common coins.&nbsp; The rare things can be hard for beginners like me to recognize let alone justify spending thousands to buy.&nbsp; A savvy Byzantine student could find a great rarity previously unrecognized but I doubt any of us will be finding a EID MAR Brutus that the seller didn&#039;t know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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