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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2279106, member: 19463&quot;]These coins do not exist except when they see Martin coming and crawl out begging to be part of his great collection. </p><p><br /></p><p>My top one is the Bickford-Smith specimen from his sale by CNG. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]455245[/ATTACH]</p><p>A couple years later I pulled this other one from a junk box for 1/5th what I paid CNG.&nbsp; These three are all different dies so I&#039;d think they should be more common but they are not.&nbsp; Barry Murphy&#039;s online collection did not show one.&nbsp; acsearch shows one sold in 2010 (a dozen years after I got mine) for no more than I paid CNG.&nbsp; The demand for these is less than the supply and the supply is approaching zero.&nbsp; I&#039;ll keep mine.&nbsp; The best one may be the dark toned one in the Michael Kelly collection but I don&#039;t know who got it.&nbsp;&nbsp; &#039;Serious&#039; collectors pay according to condition and seem not to care if they lack coins that don&#039;t come in EF.&nbsp; Eastern Septimius is not a specialty that appeals to condition fans.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]455246[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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