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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rexesq, post: 1372427, member: 5739&quot;]Great info... doug, even though your reference says it is &#039;available in great number&#039; I have only ever seen one example with this specific bust type for sale, with the three dots above the tips of the laureate crown as well as the elaborate drapery and very young-looking portrait, I truly love the obv, and the rev of this coin, and I bought it for that reason alone for my personal collection, not as an &#039;investment&#039; or something to sell for more money in the future, I expect this coin will be in my collection for my lifetime, and I managed to aqure it for a price that would be considered &#039;VERY inexpensive for any tetradrachm of the time&#039; inexpensive even for a poor condition of the much more common and very widely available Elagabalus Antioch Tets, the ones with just his head on the obv which are all over eBay and coin shops, or a low grade common-bust type Philip I or II tet. I also love the good strike and roundness of this particular tet.... I like the coin it alot, and have loved the bust type ever since I saw that one, the only one I ever saw for sale(aside from this one), for sale years ago, I thought &#039;wow I reeally like that bust, I want a tet JUST like that&#039; but the one I saw back then was almost entirely bronze looking, the billon looked so low grade, or just corroded/uncleaned, not sure, but the guy was asking like 200 or 300 USD, way too much, and it wasn&#039;t even as nice as this one. I wish I had saved a pic..... it was on ebay.</p><p>----------------</p><p><b>dougsmit</b> : Thanks for shedding some light on this coin for me, I much appreciate it, you seem to have a bit of info on just about everything, and more often than not you are the one answering my questions heh, Thank you sir..... <b>medoraman</b> too is very helpful, he is smart people, as are many of the others on here who have helped me with my questions on Ancient and World coins. I thank you all for your time and help.</p><p>----------------</p><p>When I get a chance I will take some pics of my own (the one shown is the seller pic, kinda small) and post them in this thread, so keep an eye out if you want to see some better pics, but it may be a few weeks before I get a chance.</p><p>~~~~~</p><p>~~~</p><p>~[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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