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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3019614, member: 10461&quot;]Wow.&nbsp; Ruff shape, but there&#039;s a <i>rara avis</i>, fer sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>These days I collect my ancients (mostly) for aesthetic reasons, and so would run screaming from one that looks like that ... BUT ... there is enough of the old <i>&quot;hey, let&#039;s check another Roman emperor off the list&quot; </i>philosophy left in me to be impressed with this coin, despite its issues.&nbsp; It&#039;s essentially intact... and identifiable.</p><p><br /></p><p>And <i>at the price</i>... oh yeah.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sounds good to me, on a gut-check level, anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not that I can pretend to know very much here.&nbsp; I&#039;d heard of Nigrinian, and knew he was rare, but that&#039;s about where my knowledge ends.</p><p><br /></p><p>Glad someone enjoys my kooky polls (<font size="3">I think</font>).</p><p><br /></p><p>PS- FWIW, I amassed over 100 different personalities in my short-lived but passionate &quot;<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/picture-repost-some-of-my-old-2007-08-roman-imperial-collection.296837/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/picture-repost-some-of-my-old-2007-08-roman-imperial-collection.296837/">A to Z</a>&quot; (Augustus to Zeno) collection of Roman Imperial coins ... and did it in little more than a year.&nbsp; I started in 2007 as a novice, got that far with it, and in 2008 it all came to a screeching halt when I had to sell them after getting laid off in the Great Recession.&nbsp; But I learned a good bit.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I&#039;m getting at is... I never had Nigrinian, obviously.&nbsp; <i>Coin</i>grats.&nbsp; That&#039;s a tough one off the checklist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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