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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2527694, member: 19463&quot;]My coin show Friday allowed me to see many more coins new to these eyes than usual.&nbsp; There are dealers whose entire stock is made up of coins owned by every dealer usually with the same reverses.&nbsp; There are dealers who have strange and wonderful things but sometimes these are not all that high grade.&nbsp; There are dealers who have absolutely everything under the sun including a thousand coins that I just can&#039;t get up enough interest to buy even if they are rare.&nbsp; Many Greek bronzes fall in this category.&nbsp; I bought a few but left many from cities I had quite frankly never heard of in the past and which I am unlikely to develop a need to own.&nbsp; The exceptions to this unscientific collecting method will eventually get shown here.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]539837[/ATTACH] </p><p>This AE25 of Maximinus I is from Anchialus in Thrace and told me to buy it even though the surfaces are considerably obscured.&nbsp; I suspect there is someone out there that could clean this one and reveal much detail but I am not that guy.&nbsp;&nbsp; The reverse shows two fish flanking a single dolphin which wraps around a trident suggesting the intent to honor Poseidon. I like the style; I like the type; I don&#039;t like the surfaces.&nbsp; The dealer who owned it saw the surfaces, too, so we were able to find a price.&nbsp; I have not yet found a duplicate in references checked.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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