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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 3008423, member: 83956&quot;][ATTACH=full]745686[/ATTACH] So late Friday night I was scrolling through some online coin dealers’ inventory at about 11 PM. Probably a bad idea. Anyway, I knew my next coin was going to be a Diocletian abdication follis. I love the historical context for those coins and the big flan that allows for those wonderfully long legends.</p><p><br /></p><p>And there in the newly added inventory of Marc Breitsprecher (formerly known as Ancient Imports, I think) was this emerald beauty. I clicked the buy button and then went to sleep, with visions of abdicating emperors dancing in my head.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I figured the coin would arrive in Tennessee from Texas at about the end of the week, especially since the seller might not get around to posting it until Monday or so. But I came home from work today and, lo and behold, there it was—the coin that I had clicked on late Friday night.</p><p><br /></p><p>And look at that lovely green patina. It’s as if Diocletian was the Emperor of Oz, not of Rome. As you can see, the patina is about as green in hand as it is in Marc’s inventory photo. In other words, I was satisfied with the fit between the coin in the inventory photo (bottom) and the coin in hand (top). Actually, I don’t think my in hand photo does the coin justice. It would probably be even closer to the inventory photo if I had better light.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I know that there is more to being a good dealer than rapid shipping, and I understand that many coin vendors are one-person operations.&nbsp; However, I was shocked at how quickly this coin arrived. It was nice to have this kind of immediate gratification after waiting a month or more for some international purchases.</p><p><br /></p><p>So that is a long preamble to this invitation: Post a coin that reached you surprisingly quickly given the shipping context.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you don’t have one of those, post your favorite Diocletian or favorite emerald patina.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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