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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2250681, member: 19463&quot;]This ticket troubles me. This coin type was part of lot 624 in the JQA sale.&nbsp; 1140 is the Sydenham catalog number for the coin type.&nbsp; Sydenham was used to attribute coins in this sale because Crawford had not yet been published.&nbsp; The Blom ticket is a good indication that the coin is JQA because he bought a LOT of coins at that sale but there really is no way to prove that it is the right specimen.&nbsp; The original ticket from the JQA sale&nbsp; should be with the coin.&nbsp; It is a generic ticket printed for all JQA lots with pen inserted numbers.&nbsp; I suspect if you bought a lot of three coins it came with three tickets and it was up to you to insert numbers.&nbsp; I have seen several with incorrect numbers and the two I have are not matching in ink color or handwriting.&nbsp; Lot 624 was not illustrated in the catalog (only the best were!) and the lot brought $75 so the $37.50 was the Blom resale number.&nbsp; This coin was graded at choice VF but the Syd. 1139 was EF and the more popular 1138 Panther type was also Ch. VF so I suspect this was the least of the three in his opinion. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do own the catalog set (only volume 1 has ancients) and do not recommend buying it because of the few illustrations unless you happen to own one of the illustrated, single lots.&nbsp; Most lots were multiples, some with 50 LRB.&nbsp; JQA had many nice coins and some real junk, too. I have looked up several coins for people but have yet to have seen a coin that was illustrated.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f84.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f84.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f84.html</a></p><p>Galerius from lot 943 (13 coins) for $30</p><p>[ATTACH=full]445415[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>and (I said he had junkers) from lot 929 (28 coins) for $55:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]445414[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Both of mine were from a shop in Virginia years ago and said to be ex Blom also but were not packaged like yours.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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