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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2451591, member: 76194&quot;]Ok guys, I&#039;m happy for you, but this is not a meeting of Tobacco Anonymous</p><p><br /></p><p>Getting back to coins for a second here, I think this is the coin [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] kept hoping you guys would post</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]512195[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know who won this bad boy at Agora Auctions back in November, but if it was one of you, stop hiding this beauty from the rest of us. I&#039;m jealous, only one bid and he got it at $120.00 (excluding shipping and auction house fees). Great buy!</p><p><br /></p><p>Notice the ROMA is barely there, the R is cut off and almost missing altogether. These coins have unusually small flans, so most of them will have barely any sign of the top parts of ROMA just present on the edge. If they have the full ROMA inscription, they will usually be off centered at the top of the reverse, and have part of Victory or the chariot missing. To have one that shows this much of the inscription ROMA&nbsp; and so much of the rest of the design is truly a treat.</p><p><br /></p><p>I looked at 2 dozen images of these coins from past online auctions at various places, and most that have ROMA are off centered towards the top and you have to sacrifice part of the design to get those words, and the majority look like mine, with no ROMA or barely a hint of it, but the full design with bigga and Victory.</p><p><br /></p><p>Notice that the coin above, as good as it is, has the back end of the chariot and horse&#039;s tail cut off by the edge of the flan, not to mention the barely present R in ROMA. I doubt you&#039;ll find one of these truly perfect. It is one of those things you have to decide when you get his coin with the typical small flans for the issue: &quot;What part of the design am I willing to sacrifice a little on.&quot; If the answer is &quot;None&quot; then you&#039;ll be looking for a good long while for one, and perhaps never find it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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