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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3180392, member: 56859&quot;]Wow, <i>shocker!!</i>&nbsp; I was stunned to see such a large divide in the voting.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, Q&#039;s coin clearly wins the Best Bargain category.&nbsp; It is a rare coin and he paid under current market value for condition.&nbsp; In comparison, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=brutus+koson+AV&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=brutus+koson+AV&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=" rel="nofollow">Heritage alone has sold <b>20</b> of&nbsp; those Thracian Dynasts AV staters</a> in NGC &quot;MS&quot; slabs in the last four months alone and except for two they all brought $800-950 + BP.</p><p><br /></p><p>However and as Curtis has noted before, &quot;bargain&quot;, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]819501[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the Historical or Numismatic interest category, even before deducting points for Jay&#039;s copy-and-paste writeup I thought Q&#039;s coin embodied greater history.&nbsp; Robert Kokotailo&#039;s theory about the Koson <i>is </i>interesting though.</p><p><br /></p><p>The gold coin is beautiful.&nbsp; As the article Jay quoted noted, these all suffer from &quot;odd, choppy surface textures&quot; but it is still a pretty coin.&nbsp; Q&#039;s coin has a better design and artistry (just my opinion) but it does suffer due to some porosity and scratches.</p><p><br /></p><p>That nitpicking aside, I&#039;d gladly own either coin!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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