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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3696727, member: 19463"]This keeps coming up in my life, too. I buy coins for which I would have paid double and I walk away from coins I would not buy for half the price even though they are something I might collect. This is most certainly a super coin worth every bit of what you had to pay which I assume was a great deal more than I would have but that is why you have more super coins than I can imagine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin sent me to BMCRE to see what else they had in this vein. I did not find it in the plates but there was another Griffin pose in the orichalcum as section BMCRE 1353 which was new to me (no surprise here since I am not a Hadrian specialist). The one I want to see is the Sicilia Medusa BMCRE 1779. The BM lists an 'as or dupondius' with a number and a sestertius with a symbol referring to a questionable Cohen listing. That one I would like to see but assume I never will. EDIT: I was wrong:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4875722" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4875722" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4875722</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I could get interested in Hadrian but don't have the cash to compete with you two for the nice ones. I wonder if the Griffin comes in VG.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3696727, member: 19463"]This keeps coming up in my life, too. I buy coins for which I would have paid double and I walk away from coins I would not buy for half the price even though they are something I might collect. This is most certainly a super coin worth every bit of what you had to pay which I assume was a great deal more than I would have but that is why you have more super coins than I can imagine. Your coin sent me to BMCRE to see what else they had in this vein. I did not find it in the plates but there was another Griffin pose in the orichalcum as section BMCRE 1353 which was new to me (no surprise here since I am not a Hadrian specialist). The one I want to see is the Sicilia Medusa BMCRE 1779. The BM lists an 'as or dupondius' with a number and a sestertius with a symbol referring to a questionable Cohen listing. That one I would like to see but assume I never will. EDIT: I was wrong: [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4875722[/URL] I could get interested in Hadrian but don't have the cash to compete with you two for the nice ones. I wonder if the Griffin comes in VG.[/QUOTE]
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