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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 25726954, member: 91820&quot;]Let me add this - i recall having discussion on Moneta about how rare Septimius Severus dupondii are.&nbsp; However, there are at least four maybe five for sale on ebay, which is just plain weird. I know that doesn&#039;t mean much but it is very unusual.&nbsp; Rarity is so weird in this hobby - oddly enough there are way more Gordian I and II sold since 1999 on the auction houses on acsearch.info than other sestertii of others who struck them and cost much less.&nbsp; But price is not related to rarity - too much - in this hobby - otherwise the most common sestertii of them all - Nero (over 10,000) would be cheaper&nbsp; But Nero&#039;s sestertii are quite beautiful.&nbsp; Among the most common denarii are those of Augustus - but then - it is Augustus.&nbsp; Still it is nice to find a type that only is known in single digits - but who knows - the next hoard may contain thousands of examples, or someone is hanging onto many of the type and are slowly releasing them.&nbsp; It is great when a hoard of something interesting is released and a type starts falling in price- like those small electrum coins from Mytilene and elsewhere some years back![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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