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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2460797, member: 15588&quot;]Based on the comments so far, I&#039;m happy that my impulse to buy wasn&#039;t misguided. I really liked the look of the piece. Also, I wasn&#039;t too worried about authenticity since I bought it from a fairly reputable coin shop in the area. They handle everything from 25 cent grab bags to heavy duty certified gold. </p><p><br /></p><p>Plus, the coin has a small personal connection for me. I recently started reading Seneca&#039;s &quot;Letters From A Stoic&quot; and it always heightens the historicity of a book to have a coin from the same period handy. Since it sounds like the hemidrachm was an issue earlier in Nero&#039;s reign, it may come from the time when Seneca was running the Empire while Nero went off pleasure seeking for a few years. Of course that came back to haunt Seneca later, but the coincidence of reading Seneca and finding a Nero-era coin in the same trip felt almost too good to be true. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ancients are slowly becoming my favorite coins. The first book in the Sayles series is also on its way to me. I really look forward to learning more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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