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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8274371, member: 19463&quot;]I have owned two of these.&nbsp; The first was a nice enough coin but bothered me because of the off flan REX ARETAS which IMO is the important part since the coin was issued to brag about the surrender of that king to the moneyer himself rather than an accomplishment of an ancestor as was considered normal.&nbsp; However I could make a case that I like the style better on the old coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>my first:</p><p><img src="https://a4.pbase.com/o6/88/582688/1/119740069.zHTkdWYv.re0620b02298lg.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>my second:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1460711[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My replacement, which I consider of lesser style, was also an outcast from a &#039;name&#039; collection whose owner was weeding out coins he had in duplicate.&nbsp; His standards were different than mine but I wanted the full legend more than a detailed camel head.&nbsp; I don&#039;t remember who bought my first but I believe it was someone then on Coin Talk.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is very much an example of how different coins can be and still be of the same type or even the same &#039;grade&#039;. Slabs may grade strike but won&#039;t separate the dueling details when we get nit-picky about such things.&nbsp; That is probably why the mint made so many of the things.&nbsp; They are common enough we all can have what we want.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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