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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2300303, member: 19463&quot;]Dealers of merit that I know could identify without any hint 95% of my coins to the level we see on slabs.&nbsp; I occasionally buy from but would not expect to liquidate through someone who can&#039;t tell an Elagabalus from a Caracalla or a Pertinax from a Septimius.&nbsp; Same for a Spes from a Salus (or a few dozen others).&nbsp; I expect professionals to know more about coins than I do.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It would be an interesting exercise to separate all my coins from their tags and see how many I could reunite correctly without using a reference.&nbsp; Obviously I would have trouble with some of the Septimius types that I have in a dozen examples.&nbsp; This is not a question that will be answered.&nbsp; I&#039;m not that curious.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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