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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 7892934, member: 75143&quot;]The backstory: in Roma E-Sale 87 I only won one single coin. Since shipping is L21.50, that seemed like an awful lot for just one coin, so I asked to combined shipping for the next E-sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing I really liked to begin with, but I fell into the sunk cost fallacy and figured I had to &quot;make up&quot; for the expensive shipping with more purchases.</p><p><br /></p><p>So I ended up with a total of three okay coins that make me look and say, &quot;meh.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Caracalla AE28, 13.75g; Caesarea.</p><p>Pro: Another addition to my Fireball Island collection.</p><p>Con: sort of generic</p><p><br /></p><p>ROMA PIC:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1362118[/ATTACH]</p><p>MY PIC: </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1362121[/ATTACH] </p><p>Decent job on the photography, but they angled it such that it shines a lot more than it really does.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Philip II AE28, 11g; Antioch.</p><p>Pro: Quadrigas are cool, my first Philip II.</p><p>Con: not the prettiest patina</p><p><br /></p><p>ROMA PIC:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1362119[/ATTACH] </p><p>MY PIC:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1362122[/ATTACH] </p><p>I think Roma&#039;s picture sort of highlights the defects a bit more than IRL.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Gordian III &amp; Tranquilina AE32, 27.42g; Singara.</p><p>Pro: really nice reverse color, another random city I&#039;ve never heard of</p><p>Con: absolutely awful off-center strike, terrible sand encrustations</p><p><br /></p><p>ROMA PIC:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1362120[/ATTACH] </p><p>MY PIC:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1362123[/ATTACH] </p><p>I think Roma sort of dropped the ball on this one. The colors are a lot more vibrant in hand. Then again, the evidence of slight tooling and smoothing is more evident in hand sooooo....</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think the Caracalla is the big winner here. Large size, attractive, if a bit generic.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the big loser here is myself, who&#039;s spent a Benjamin and a half on coins I didn&#039;t really want, or need, just to make the L21.50 shipping seem more &quot;worth it.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Conclusion: the Sunk Cost Fallacy is your worst enemy.</p><p>____</p><p>What about you all? Did you enjoy your Roma wins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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