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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2725889, member: 19463&quot;]I find it a bit offensive that I can not read this coin even though it would seem to be in the language I consider primary.&nbsp; I would be a lot more comfortable with a legend in Greek or Latin or Nagari or a few others that I don&#039;t read at all.&nbsp; When a coin that looks to be of UK orige is said to have only one other, one would have to look in the British Museum resources.&nbsp; There are letters that suggest a William but not being a UK collector I&#039;d have no clue where to start.&nbsp; If we extend the definition of &#039;ancient&#039; to include all coins made by hand and not machines we would only have a half million or so blind alleys to explore.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank for posting it, Barry.&nbsp; In truth, what I would love to see posted are coins submitted for NGC services that neither of you recognize straight off and make you have to pull a book off of a shelf.&nbsp; I assume this happens a few times a year.&nbsp;&nbsp; The recent Gemini sale including all those Dattari seconds (or were they the thirds, and tenths???) probably included a number of things unidentifiable by most of us but I am not sure how many people will be paying slab fees for rough Poor+ 1/5 1/5 extreme rarities.&nbsp; I have not even heard how many of the basal lots sold let alone what became of the potential sleepers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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