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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1850247, member: 56859&quot;]Thanks for mentioning that, Doug.&nbsp; I forgot to.</p><p><br /></p><p>It feels a bit uncomfortable posting positive things about this seller, yet there are positives to be fairly said!&nbsp; The attributions I&#039;ve looked at, including the two I&#039;ve bought, appear to be correct based on the online resources I&#039;ve checked.&nbsp; The coins were sent with nice write-ups as well and I like that he includes pertinent history in his listings.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be interesting to do a few test purchases to see if he has a set formula for his pricing.&nbsp; I gather from my experience with using the Make Offer option (with him and another seller) that eBay sellers set it up with a pre-set minimum and&nbsp; if your offer meets or exceeds it, the offer is accepted immediately.&nbsp; I suspect this seller sets up a ~800-1000% higher price for BIN/MakeOffer, leaving his sale items (all seem to be 71% off) with further room for bargaining.</p><p><br /></p><p>While most of the coins are at the lower end of quality, with his inventory of ~7000 coins at the moment there are likely to some interesting things.&nbsp; The two I bought last year were uncommon and no one else had any examples for sale during the window in which I was looking.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish I&#039;d written down the original asking price for the Julia Domna/ithyphallic Priapus coin I bought from him.&nbsp; It was many hundreds if I recall.&nbsp; I offered $60 and it was accepted.&nbsp; Good lucking finding other examples of this specimen in <i>any</i> condition!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]309008[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>CNG archives has only 2 Julia Domna/Priapus sales, one with these dies and one with a different style reverse.&nbsp; Check out the condition of them and their hammers:</p><p><a href="http://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&amp;ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&amp;ITEM_INVENTORY_NUMBER=&amp;CONTAINER_NAME=&amp;ITEM_LOT_NUMBER=&amp;ITEM_DESC=julia+domna+priapus&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1&amp;VIEW_TYPE=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&amp;ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&amp;ITEM_INVENTORY_NUMBER=&amp;CONTAINER_NAME=&amp;ITEM_LOT_NUMBER=&amp;ITEM_DESC=julia+domna+priapus&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1&amp;VIEW_TYPE=0" rel="nofollow">http://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&amp;ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&amp;ITEM_INVENTORY_NUMBER=&amp;CONTAINER_NAME=&amp;ITEM_LOT_NUMBER=&amp;ITEM_DESC=julia domna priapus&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1&amp;VIEW_TYPE=0</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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