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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2031366, member: 19463&quot;]Nice coin.&nbsp; I do not agree with the grading of the surface at 3/5 since a lot of the &#039;problem&#039; is crystallization which I do not find nearly as offensive as porosity.&nbsp; This is a 4/5 to me.&nbsp; </p><p>There are a lot of problems common to coins of Taras.&nbsp; Many nice staters are on small thick flans losing important parts of the dolphin or rider.&nbsp; There are many styles from slightly boring to rather fancy.&nbsp; Also interesting is the age range of the two humans.&nbsp; Some are boy jockeys from the races while others are soldiers.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course mine were selected because they were cheap which means each has some problem that kept the big dogs away from it.&nbsp; Smaller denominations seem to be more prone to metal problems.&nbsp; I wonder if that has something to do with their being individual losses more often while big silver might be more likely to have been in a pot hoard.&nbsp; Of course one of mine is a fourree but you should see it easily despite the fact that its style is IMHO at least as good as most of these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]369687[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]369688[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]369693[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This one was ex Numismatic Fine Arts in 1990 and perfectly centered meaning it loses a little of everything important on the reverse.&nbsp; It is not my favorite but it was expensive mostly because it was from NFA.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]369689[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>3rd century drachm has the city name as Tarentum rather than Taras as on earlier coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]369694[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>2 diobols - popular because of the Hercules reverses[ATTACH=full]369690[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]369691[/ATTACH] </p><p>obol - Actually this one is not bad for these but the simple type and small size don&#039;t make them popular.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]369692[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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