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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2466241, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m not a dog person so can not judge the animal but that is a strange coin in a condition sense.&nbsp; The fields seem perfectly smooth and beautiful but the body of the dog and a swipe across the obverse look pealed and rough almost like we see on fourrees that have core exposure but here both metals seem to be the same bronze. It is still a very nice coin but I am having trouble explaining the perfection of the fields and the textures on the dog at the same time.&nbsp; What is the use of the Phi?&nbsp; On the common Mammertine coin type below with horse there is a Pi left of the horse which we take to mean Penta or five. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]517882[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The one coin on acsearch appears to be a die duplicate which suggests a rarity.</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Adranus&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Adranus&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;company=" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Adranus&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;company=</a></p><p>CNG once sold a similar coin listed as having minor smoothing but still the same die.&nbsp; Most Mamertine coins seem to have been smoothed or could use some surface help if you are into such corrections.&nbsp; I suspect the volcanic soil of the Etna region might be hard on bronzes.</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=138546" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=138546" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=138546</a></p><p>I&#039;d say this was a good coin to buy now rather than waiting for another in some future decade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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