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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 24598635, member: 26430"][USER=74282]@red_spork[/USER] -- Thanks for sharing the coin & details its extraction. What a great little coin! This one is so much more attractive than I'm used to seeing. I find silver fractions endlessly enjoyable (also kleinbronzemünzen and AV/EL, too). But hard to find them from the Romans, besides Quinarii (and, much, much later, weird little Siliqua bits). It's a "medium priority" for me -- I don't study the literature or published specimens -- but I do watch out for any attractive examples in my price range and/or ones from interesting old collections.... After several years at that, I've still never managed to acquire an AR Sestertius! In all honesty, most that I see are not terribly attractive, but this one is beautiful. I'd be unspeakably excited to land one like this! Very useful to learn of your experience with the NGC holder. Some can be much more difficult to open than others, and my big concern is always damaging a small or fragile coin during a difficult extraction. The smaller the coin, though, the bigger the payoff to removing it. I find that big coins can still be appreciated in a slab. But for a small coin, they just make it too difficult to get a good look and full appreciation.[/QUOTE]