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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2527520, member: 19463&quot;]Yesterday while shopping at the coin show, a dealer had two examples of Steve&#039;s coin. Both were corroded.&nbsp; Neither showed much of the undertype and only enough of the countermark that we could identify the coin.&nbsp; The better one was marked $80 and the lesser one $60.&nbsp; Steve&#039;s example is one of the finest of the type I have seen.&nbsp; The coins were wel used when the countermarks were applied and strikes varied in quality.&nbsp; They circulated some more and were lost in volcanic soil.&nbsp; I consider it something of a miracle they exist but now the best we can do is call them &quot;grungy and punched-out!!&quot;???&nbsp; Those of you new to ancients might have trouble with coins as ugly as Steve&#039;s but some of us love our coins for what they are not how we wish they might have been.&nbsp; I have some beautiful coins, too, but I try not to let them bully their homely sisters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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