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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2032482, member: 19463&quot;]Resigned to it might be better than good....&nbsp; Mine is not nearly as nice but I have had it since 1999 when it was a much more rare type.&nbsp; I had my day.&nbsp; I do not have the BONI EVENTVC reverse with this obverse but I do have a die link with it used with a different (IICO) obverse die.&nbsp;&nbsp; I bought that one from Harlan Berk before he hired Curtis Clay who wrecked the possibility of getting Severan elite from there.&nbsp; In the day, it was harder to find a dealer who could tell an Eastern mint coin from a Rome (much less care).&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]370026[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]370027[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>We each have coins the other would like.&nbsp; He has many more that I do not than the other way around.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, die links are much more educational than die duplicates since they tie together various coins into the big picture of what happened at the mint and in what order.&nbsp; There are many coins in this series known from five or fewer examples but there may be others belonging to people who do not share data.&nbsp; Every so often one of our treasured &#039;unique&#039; coins gets downgraded to &#039;one of two&#039;.&nbsp; I do wonder just how many people are out there that are gathering these quietly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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