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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3238114, member: 56859&quot;]I feel your pain.&nbsp; Losing all except one inexpensive secondary target wreaks havoc on the total cost of the coin <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; I&#039;ve experienced that a few times.</p><p><br /></p><p>My first COL NEM was a surprise inclusion in a group lot of Ptolemaic bronzes.&nbsp; My second is a nicer example.&nbsp; It&#039;s tempting to get more of them.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html" rel="nofollow">Doug has a nice page on the trouble with grading these</a>, showing how you have to pick what you can and can&#039;t live with.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_ada3e31c582a437f8e4fd88e85ce74d6.jpg_srb_p_850_433_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Augustus &amp; Agrippa</b></p><p>Gaul, Nemausus, c. CE 10-14</p><p>AE dupondius</p><p>Obv: IMP/DIVI F P-P, back-to-back heads of Agrippa, in combined rostral crown &amp; laurel wreath, and Augustus, laureate</p><p>Rev: COL-NEM, long, vertical palm with crocodile chained below, wreath to left of palm tip with ties trailing to right</p><p>Ref: RIC 160</p><p><i>ex Professor James R. Eaton Collection (1834-1897) </i></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_84ba315213834d088710ee1ad671feb8~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_625,al_c,q_90/ae43f8_84ba315213834d088710ee1ad671feb8~mv2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Augustus &amp; Agrippa</b></p><p>struck c. 10 BCE - CE 10, Nemausus</p><p>AE dupondius</p><p>Obv: IMP/DIVI F, back-to-back heads of Agrippa, in combined rostral crown &amp; laurel wreath, and Augustus, laureate</p><p>Rev: COL - NEM; palm tree, top bent top right with a wreath above; crocodile chained to palm tree</p><p>Ref: RIC 158; AMC 425; Cohen 10; RPC 524</p><p><i>From the collection of a Man of the Cloth, now giving up the pursuit; acquired in the 1990s</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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