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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2841442, member: 19463&quot;]Excellent coin of a type I hold &#039;special&#039;...</p><p><br /></p><p>My example does not have provenance to the ground but did come to me with a tale of adventure. In the fall of 1998, two friends and I traveled from our homes near Washington DC to southern Pennsylvania to visit the offices of coin auctioneer CNG so we could preview their upcoming sale 47.&nbsp; My Interest in this sale was that it included the remnants from the Severan collection of my late friend Roger Bickford Smith whose passing set back the study of the Eastern mint denarii of Septimius Severus for decades.&nbsp; His good coins went to the British Museum.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>After viewing the lots (I ended up buying ten coins at that sale) we were shown some coins available for immediate purchase.&nbsp; I ended up buying three of which the Postumus with IOVI STATORI was one.&nbsp; These were the days before CNG had electronic sales for coins not worthy of their catalog auctions.&nbsp; Some of what we saw were things that did not sell in previous sales.&nbsp; I remember being attracted to this coin because it was well struck on a very thick flan and decided that I needed to buy something to make the trip &#039;worthwhile&#039;.&nbsp; The other two coins were half again as expensive as this one (and $50 was a lot for this coin in 1998) but all three are still with me and in the category of things that will be sold after my passing.&nbsp; Advice:&nbsp; Buy coins you like and keep them.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]672361[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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