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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3571717, member: 19463&quot;]Do you have the price realized for that sale?&nbsp; I am a famous cheapskate but would easily pay $2000 for the Gonzaga Septimius legionary sestertius.&nbsp; I suspect $5000 would be closer.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t know of any reference listing all of the known Gonzaga coins but I suggest you need at least two to demonstrate the fact that the silver coins received a gold stamp.&nbsp; I recall seeing one sold where the foil had fallen off making a really defective bargain basement example probably not worth double the same coin that belonged to a 1400&#039;s collector who did not stamp his coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>My offering here is a Messembria diobol with modern circular stamp with points at top and bottom and the letter H.&nbsp; I read this H as the Cyrillic N and always worried that the coin had been market Nyet for no good.&nbsp; I was the only bidder in CNG 45 where it was well described to a clientele who would have nothing to do with such a damaged coin.&nbsp; I never did fit in with that crowd.&nbsp; I do suspect that Tsar Nicholas would have had a fancier N so this was some lesser Russian but I sure would love to know who and where the rest of his coins are today.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]951517[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have other paint numbered coins but my best is the Germanicus dupondius.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]951519[/ATTACH] </p><p>While I would never paint on my coins, I briefly considered kicking my coin 47 out of its place held for 33 years so this coin could be my 47.&nbsp; The kid&#039;s mother pointed out she was my number 46 but I was not sure I wanted to appear to be showing favoritism to a Julio-Claudian like Antonia even if correcting family separation seemed like the right thing to do.&nbsp; </p><p>My 46 (no paint):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]951521[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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