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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4579960, member: 110350&quot;][USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER], thanks for your wish!&nbsp; I hope that either I have enough money someday, or live long enough, or both, to buy a hundred more sestertii -- along with all the other kinds of coins I might want to buy.</p><p><br /></p><p>All other things being equal, I would certainly also have preferred one with the RESTITVTOR ITALIAE portion of the reverse legend visible.&nbsp; But I thought the nice obverse portrait, and the relatively low price, made up for its absence.&nbsp; Also, there were only two other examples for sale on VCoins in which that part of the reverse legend was visible at all:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1134164[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1134161[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The first one was $70 more than mine, and in general I didn&#039;t like it as much as mine anyway. (Among other things, the green patch on Marcus&#039;s shoulder looks like there&#039;s a pit under it.)&nbsp; The second one was 500 euros, and although it&#039;s very nice, the RESTITVTOR barely shows, and the price was way more than I was willing to spend.&nbsp; Of course I could have been patient and waited for the perfect combination of quality and price to come along, but I had no interest in doing that!&nbsp; Besides, in looking at all the other examples in the CNG archives -- and there weren&#039;t all that many to begin with -- it appeared to me that for whatever reason, examples with that part of the reverse legend either absent or barely readable comprise the substantial majority of these coins.&nbsp; So I might have been waiting a long time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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