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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 8262595, member: 74282&quot;]I recently bought a coin from a dealer I&#039;ve never bought from before out of Amsterdam, RomanCoinShop.com aka Jeroen van der Meulen. This bronze was correctly cataloged by the seller(often SAX bronzes are misattributed as more common C•SAX bronzes) who rightfully listed it as Extremely Rare but offered it at a very fair price. Most retail dealers just ask crazy prices for rare types like this when correctly identified and a lot of good bronzes sit in their inventory for years unsold so I appreciate his fair pricing. This dealer didn&#039;t have anything else for me but I felt like his prices overall were pretty fair. Since his coins aren&#039;t on Vcoins you might not have seen his inventory before so I highly recommend checking it out</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1457434[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic Æ Sextans(6.82g, 20mm). Cluvius Saxula, moneyer, 169-158 BC. Rome mint(or perhaps Central Italian mint). Head of Mercury right wearing winged Petasos, •• above / Prow of galley right; SAX above, •• before, ROMA below. Crawford 180/5; Russo RBW 765/(Central Italian Mint); Sydenham 361d</p><p><br /></p><p>Another dealer I&#039;ve had many good experiences with is Marc Breitsprecher, formerly known as Ancient Imports. He lists a lot of interesting coins so often I buy a couple of coins from him at a time and he usually gives me a great deal and his coins often have interesting provenances too. For such a high volume dealer his RR bronzes and early RR silver are uncommonly well identified also. If you&#039;re a collector who is new to the series you can buy with confidence knowing the coin you&#039;re buying is probably correctly described which is not always a given, even when shopping with the best dealers. Here&#039;s a nice little quinarius I bought from him a while back, a coin which I regretted missing when it first came up for auction but which he sold me for lower than the winner paid after hammer+fees+shipping.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1457448[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic AR Quinarius(16mm, 1.76 g, 10h), &quot;L&quot; series, 211-210 BC, Luceria mint. Head of Roma right, wearing Phrygian helmet. Behind, V; below, L. Border of dots / The Dioscuri, each holding a spear on horseback right; two stars above; below, ROMA in linear frame. Line border. Crawford 98A/3</p><p>Ex Marc Breitsprecher, 28 Mar 2020, ex CNG e-Auction 383, 28 September 2016, ex RBW Collection, ex Antiqua Ltd(Steve Rubinger), March 1997[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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