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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5313623, member: 110350"]Thank you. When I saw it listed, I admit I didn't take the time to do any sales research, because I had a feeling it wouldn't last long. I just hit "buy," even though the price was rather high for me. Looking at both acsearch and VCoins after the fact, I discovered that (1) a lot of these coins are significantly off-center on one side or the other; it isn't all that common for them to be this well-centered; and (2) the HJB "buy" price was more than reasonable as a retail price, given that dealers are asking quite a bit more for the good examples on VCoins. The closest I found to an exact match to mine, with the same magistrate's name, sold for about $200 (including buyer's fee) more than the HJB buy price for mine, at a Savoca auction in December 2016. I think the one I bought is almost as nice, although admittedly the Savoca example has more details preserved on the amphora, and is also on a broader flan, so you can see the incuse circle that's supposed to be there a lot better. [ATTACH=full]1224426[/ATTACH] Still, I'm very pleased with mine.  Some of HJB's prices in their retail store (they're on MA-Shops) are rather high, I think, but I haven't noticed that that's the case with their Buy or Bid Sales. (Although I don't know why it would be any different for one than the other.)[/QUOTE]