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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 2276646, member: 44357&quot;]And with it being in the Boston MFA now, you won&#039;t be able to unfortunately <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> The 190K CHF price in 2002 for it makes me wish I were collecting then (the CHF was lower as well). I don&#039;t need a time machine to go all the way back to antiquity: the early 2000s would be just fine!</p><p><br /></p><p>The banker&#039;s mark on mine is minimally distracting in my opinion. The greater &quot;problem&quot; is the obverse centering, but I was happy to sacrifice a bit of centering (which doesn&#039;t lose any detail) in favor of a very solidly centered reverse and fine style.</p><p><br /></p><p>As is often the case with ancients, one must pick and choose between what problem is acceptable. Whereas with US coins, a &quot;details&quot; holder means negligible value and bashing because CAC didn&#039;t fawn over it, ancients are often still quite pricey even when imperfect (with my denarius being a good case-in-point):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i1028.photobucket.com/albums/y342/AncientJoe/EidMar_zpsxk3m43aq.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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