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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2192584, member: 19463&quot;]My second denarius is well known to this list thanks to the great write up we got from TIF when she got her specimen. </p><p><a href="http://www.tifcollection.com/#!mussidius-longus-denarius-solcloacina/c1eyl" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tifcollection.com/#!mussidius-longus-denarius-solcloacina/c1eyl" rel="nofollow">http://www.tifcollection.com/#!mussidius-longus-denarius-solcloacina/c1eyl</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Mine is not as nice but it is mine.&nbsp; As expected of a coin from 42 BC, workmanship could be better; centering could be a lot better.&nbsp; I&#039;ll not describe it fully since I want to encourage everyone to read TIF&#039;s page.&nbsp; I did notice our coins have a difference.&nbsp; My coin and most I have found when researching the matter show the head of Sol facing slightly to the right of center while TIF&#039;s looks straight forward. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]426148[/ATTACH] </p><p>Before this coin arrived I wrote TIF blaming her for my having bought the coin. She replied that I had no complaint considering the number of coins she had bought after seeing things I posted here.&nbsp; That, folks, is what we have here --- a mutual enabling society for the benefit of those who would have us drain our bank accounts by buying their coins.&nbsp; How many of you recall seeing TIF&#039;s sewer goddess coins and said that you wanted one?&nbsp; Who, besides me, has bought one of these thanks to TIF?&nbsp; Who&#039;s next? </p><p><br /></p><p>I might add that my coin is also special since it came with a ticket showing it sold in an Alex Malloy sale in 1972.&nbsp; It was marked as having brought $20 on a $40 estimate.&nbsp; It seems nobody wanted it in 1972 so it went cheap.&nbsp; I wish I had bought it then but I rarely spent that much on a coin back then.&nbsp; If I had, I would have sold it in 1974 when I had to cash in most of my coins so maybe the long term good was better served this way.&nbsp; It was not $20 in 2015.&nbsp; Oh, well.&nbsp; At least it has not been batch cleaned for a while but the tone does not look right in my first photo attempt.&nbsp; Neither of my new Republican photos are satisfactory.&nbsp; I may have to go back to square one on coin photos.&nbsp; I&#039;m getting worse.&nbsp; Tomorrow?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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