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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 8243750, member: 74282&quot;]My favorite ex-Cointalker coin, and one of my favorite coins in my entire collection is from [USER=44183]@stevex6[/USER] whom the administrators here banned and then badmouthed via PM when some of us attempted to appeal it. I wasn&#039;t supposed to say that second part but honestly I see no reason to keep it under wraps at this point.</p><p><br /></p><p>I admired this coin when <a href="http://cointalk.com/threads/ancients-is-that-thomas-the-train-or-is-that-a-killer-overstrike.271414/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cointalk.com/threads/ancients-is-that-thomas-the-train-or-is-that-a-killer-overstrike.271414/" rel="nofollow">Steve bought it and posted it</a>, even though at the auction that day I felt it was a little expensive. Even so, after a couple years of regretting not buying this coin, when I had a second chance to buy it out of Steve&#039;s collection for about the same price he paid, there was no question. It&#039;s a common type, I could have perhaps waited and found a better deal but none of them would be this coin, with this provenance, both to a friend and to the famous Knobloch collection, and ultimately, try as I might, I couldn&#039;t find any other examples with such wonderful and dramatic overstriking. Most of this type are just a mess from the overstriking but this coin is really as close to two coins in one as you can get with the very prominent undertype and legible undetype legend. I&#039;ve seen a number of examples of this type sense then, both in a die study and in many old auction catalogs and none I liked as much as this coin so I am very happy I had a chance to purchase it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1451480[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic Æ Triens(20mm, 5.88g, 12h), anonymous(&quot;CA&quot; series), 209-195 B.C., Canusium(?) mint. Helmeted head of Minerva right; above, •••• / Prow right; above, ROMA; below, ••••; to right, CA. Crawford 100/3; Sydenham 309c</p><p>Overstruck on Oiniadai, Akarnania Zeus/Acheloüs, cf. BCD Akarnania 345-348 for undertype. For CA triens overstruck on Oiniadai cf. Hersh NC 1953, 14 and cf. Crawford Table XVIII, 91</p><p><br /></p><p>Ex Stevex6 Collection via coin.ages, eBay, January 27 2018, ex RBW Collection, CNG e-auction 364, December 2 2015, lot 90, ex Stacks Coin Galleries, August 20 1986, lot 117, ex Frederick S. Knobloch Collection, Stacks May 4 1978, lot 90[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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