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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 4293238, member: 97383&quot;]Roman provincial coinage is an area that is ripe with bargains. Collectors shouldn&#039;t confuse rarity with value. Some common provincial coins will sell for many times what a rarity will fetch because of superior style &amp; high grade condition. So how do we define rarity in provincial coinage? I think Richard McAlee had the best answer. He states: Extremely Rare= 1 or 2 coins, Very Rare= 3 to 5 coins, Rare= 6 to 12 coins. In the recent <b>Roma XIX Auction</b> a handsome tetradrachm from Laodicea ad Mare, Prier 1154 was sold. There are 9 known specimens of this coin &amp; the example illustrated in Prieur&#039;s book would grade Ex. Fine with heavy porosity, especially on the obverse. On today&#039;s market that coin would be worth $300-500. The example from the <b>Roma XIX Auction</b> is illustrated below. It is in extraordinary condition &amp; of the finest style; it sold for $6,575.00 <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1092837[/ATTACH] </p><p>I&#039;ve posted many Rare &amp; Extremely Rare provincial coins in the past so I won&#039;t punish <b>CT</b> members by posting them again <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie15" alt=":arghh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Recently I won a Rare Tet from Antioch, Syria of Herennia Etruscilla, wife of emperor Trajan Decius, pictured below. McAlee writes in his book <b>The Coins of Roman Antioch</b> &quot;Both the tetradrachms and the <i>aes </i>coins in her name are rare.&quot; My coin is certainly one of the finest graded by NGC &amp; the portrait is of very fine style. The coin cost me $222.00 which I consider a bargain <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1092844[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1092845[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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