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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5387275, member: 19463"]Why did the old fool sell that nice Probus? Well, before AMCC2 I was wanting to support our friend Sev and consign some coins to his sale but most of what I had to consign was not all that nice so I picked out a few that were close enough to duplicates and sacrificed one. The one you bought has a dot after TEMP while the one I kept (mostly because I liked the style better) did not. The keeper has less silver but it is attractively spread and my interest in Probus does not require keeping a coin for a dot that I had not researched enough to know why I should care. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1231246[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone else got a better Probus which I sent in error (got numbers confused) that was not a duplicate. Oh, well, I still have too many coins. Most of my Probus holdings came from 20 years ago or so when there seemed to be more nice ones on the market than today. There is another matter. One of the BIG attractions of Probus to my eyes has nothing to do with rarity but is because the guy was a really natty dresser and coins show a good variety of military and consular attire that we just do not see on coins of most rulers all that often. Simply said, to stay in my collection, I would favor coins with a fancy obverse even if it is common to a plain old toga or cloak.</p><p> [ATTACH=full]1231266[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1231267[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1231269[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1231270[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1231271[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1231272[/ATTACH]</p><p>I love the tone on this one:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1231273[/ATTACH]</p><p>After selling the ~50 coins I did in AMCC2, I gave away the ones that did not sell but have forgotten how many there were. They went to an occasional poster on CT I was hoping would become a regular. I decided there would be no more coins sold until my total collection number rose back to where it was before. I still am down 27 coins from the count before AMCC2 and was hoping to get some new ones in AMCC3 last year. This was made more important when coin shows went away. I have given away coins since AMCC2 but no more sales. I have sold many coins but I don't enjoy it like most of you seem to.</p><p><br /></p><p>Photography: I have trouble photographing coins with silvering, too, and have been practicing a lot reshooting many to get what I want. I will not tolerate washed out, textureless silver ('blast white' is not good) until I am convinced that I can do no better. The worst are those with large patches of silver and and large areas of darker coin surface as on the reverse top of the one below. I prefer coins with the silvering missing in smaller pieces. They are easier to photograph. Unless we are talking about the rare obverses (horsehead, Vota shield) I will not be buying more Probus coins.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1231268[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It has been a while since I heard an update as to when to expect AMCC3 and I understand why the current mail situation might make someone who values International bidding not want to play today. I am thankful for many things. One is that I am not a coin dealer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5387275, member: 19463"]Why did the old fool sell that nice Probus? Well, before AMCC2 I was wanting to support our friend Sev and consign some coins to his sale but most of what I had to consign was not all that nice so I picked out a few that were close enough to duplicates and sacrificed one. The one you bought has a dot after TEMP while the one I kept (mostly because I liked the style better) did not. The keeper has less silver but it is attractively spread and my interest in Probus does not require keeping a coin for a dot that I had not researched enough to know why I should care. [ATTACH=full]1231246[/ATTACH] Someone else got a better Probus which I sent in error (got numbers confused) that was not a duplicate. Oh, well, I still have too many coins. Most of my Probus holdings came from 20 years ago or so when there seemed to be more nice ones on the market than today. There is another matter. One of the BIG attractions of Probus to my eyes has nothing to do with rarity but is because the guy was a really natty dresser and coins show a good variety of military and consular attire that we just do not see on coins of most rulers all that often. Simply said, to stay in my collection, I would favor coins with a fancy obverse even if it is common to a plain old toga or cloak. [ATTACH=full]1231266[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1231267[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1231269[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1231270[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1231271[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1231272[/ATTACH] I love the tone on this one: [ATTACH=full]1231273[/ATTACH] After selling the ~50 coins I did in AMCC2, I gave away the ones that did not sell but have forgotten how many there were. They went to an occasional poster on CT I was hoping would become a regular. I decided there would be no more coins sold until my total collection number rose back to where it was before. I still am down 27 coins from the count before AMCC2 and was hoping to get some new ones in AMCC3 last year. This was made more important when coin shows went away. I have given away coins since AMCC2 but no more sales. I have sold many coins but I don't enjoy it like most of you seem to. Photography: I have trouble photographing coins with silvering, too, and have been practicing a lot reshooting many to get what I want. I will not tolerate washed out, textureless silver ('blast white' is not good) until I am convinced that I can do no better. The worst are those with large patches of silver and and large areas of darker coin surface as on the reverse top of the one below. I prefer coins with the silvering missing in smaller pieces. They are easier to photograph. Unless we are talking about the rare obverses (horsehead, Vota shield) I will not be buying more Probus coins. [ATTACH=full]1231268[/ATTACH] It has been a while since I heard an update as to when to expect AMCC3 and I understand why the current mail situation might make someone who values International bidding not want to play today. I am thankful for many things. One is that I am not a coin dealer.[/QUOTE]
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