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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2778883, member: 10461&quot;]OK, [USER=76194]@Sallent[/USER] and others: y&#039;all had a subconscious influence on me.</p><p><br /></p><p>My trigger finger got itchy.&nbsp; It hovered over the mouse briefly - hesitantly at first - then came down with a decisive <a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/robertson/244/product/seljuq_of_rum_kaykhusraw_ii_ar_dirham_siwas_ah_638_28_gr__2205_mm/866316/Default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/robertson/244/product/seljuq_of_rum_kaykhusraw_ii_ar_dirham_siwas_ah_638_28_gr__2205_mm/866316/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">click</a>.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one does have some flatly-struck areas, but I was willing to accept that because of&nbsp; the contrasting <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-is-a-circcam-you-ask-look-and-see-and-post-yours.288335/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-is-a-circcam-you-ask-look-and-see-and-post-yours.288335/">&quot;CircCam&quot;</a> toning, which I believe more than compensates for the strike (which really isn&#039;t all <i>that</i> bad anyway).</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus the sunface and lion are so expressive here, and there&#039;s that little crescent moon off to the left of the sun which I don&#039;t see on all of them (mintmark? moneyer&#039;s privy mark?).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.vcoins.com%2Fproduct_image%2F244%2FB%2F6%2FbC5JEpd84KwqL2PsFAy6Pr7H3DGaCx.jpg&amp;hash=109fb432eef1c5711b9532a25cd64490" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So this was the one for me.&nbsp; Barely over a hundred bucks.&nbsp; I was pleasantly surprised at that.&nbsp; I had thought these were considerably more expensive.&nbsp; Some <i>are</i>, of course, but I didn&#039;t find them any more impressive than the more affordable ones.&nbsp; At this point, I know nothing of scarcer varieties in these, and am never going to specialize in them.&nbsp; So for a single type coin, I like my $105-ish example just fine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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