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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 2506846, member: 42034&quot;]Thanks for your comments.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t have an Otho and I decided to put a low bid in on an aureus rather than a denarius: which is still very expensive.&nbsp; This is from a Stack&#039;s summer auction, 2004, lot# 20. As you can see there is a small spot which was described as dirt or encrustation in the catalog on the obv near 6:00.&nbsp; As it turns out this is dirt, actually appears to be a bit of dried leather, not an encrustation.&nbsp; I decided to leave it on as one day someone may want to do an analysis to see exactly what it is.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the time, after collecting ancients pretty seriously since finishing grad school in 88, this was my 1st Roman gold coin.&nbsp; To date I only have 3 Roman gold pieces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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