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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Suarez, post: 3557057, member: 99239&quot;]This is probably my best &quot;steal&quot;, an ugly little Leontius AE4 that was sold as an ordinary Leo I about 15 years ago.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]945627[/ATTACH] </p><p>Tiny, little ugly thing but as far as I can tell no coin of this usurper has ever gone to auction. Probably about a dozen known today with the only other type being a unique solidus from Antioch.</p><p><br /></p><p>In case you find interest in rare wannabe kings you can read the full writeup at <a href="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/coins/9102.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/coins/9102.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.tantaluscoins.com/coins/9102.php</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A long time ago on ebay there used to be this Bulgarian guy named Dmitri who listed hundreds of nice coins every week under the name of &quot;Ancient Auction House&quot;. Anyway, he had a dreadfully inept assistant who did the coins&#039; descriptions and ID&#039;s so it was easy to cherry pick the listings. While I scored a few decent sleepers over the years it just so happened that I went on a trip one fateful week and missed the big one when he listed a 3-ant lot the sort that would usually go for ten bucks because of nominal condition. In that one lot was a Pacatian! Curtis Clay won the lot and when he told me about it I wanted to cry. Oh well, I guess it&#039;s just as well since if he saw it had I been paying attention we would have both bid very hard and then... then it wouldn&#039;t have been such a story!</p><p><br /></p><p>Rasiel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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