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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2415048, member: 19463&quot;]My show today produced the usual group of coins that I like and some of you may but tonight I will only show the extremes.&nbsp; First is the most expensive coin I bought but I must have got a bargain because I easily found an online listing for this exact specimen selling in 2013 for over $100 more than I paid.&nbsp; This is the fourth time I have found a new coin of mine listed as having been sold by this particular dealer for more than I paid so I assume that his practice is to list unsold coins as having sold and then wholesaling them off to small dealers from whom I buy them.&nbsp; I see nothing wrong with the coin but I would not have bid on it in a sale where it was hyped as aEF (see the scratches - they showed in the 2013 photo, too).&nbsp; It is a nice example of the coin but why do we have to call everything EF?&nbsp; As far as listing coins that don&#039;t sell as sold so you can make it look like you are a hotshot dealer .... lets just say it does not make me want to deal with him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eukratides , Baktria, 170-155 BC AE hemiobol Dioscuri riding</p><p>[ATTACH=full]499663[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Cheapest and worst today is a coin the seller could not ID but I could so I bought it cheap (or only slightly more than something this ugly is worth).&nbsp; Ordinarily I would tell you the ID but it is an Alexandrian tetradrachm so I will post it here and ask JA to practice using his new Emmett book to ID it.&nbsp; Sure it is missing some legend but it has all the letters needed to get the name right even if you don&#039;t have the book.&nbsp; I would appreciate anyone owning a nicer one to post it here for comparison.&nbsp; Others who like ID challenges are welcome to try this one, too, but I will be out most of tomorrow so I won&#039;t be available to answer questions.&nbsp; I know when I bought it that it was not worth anything in the market but sometimes you just enjoy throwing money to the wind.&nbsp; I wonder if it could be cleaned or tooled to look better???&nbsp; If the rest of the coin was as nice as the portrait, this thing would be very desirable.&nbsp; As it is....????</p><p>[ATTACH=full]499671[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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