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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 3557784, member: 83175&quot;]Ah, yes - I&#039;m the proud new owner of [USER=74282]@red_spork[/USER]&#039;s pentagram victoriatus - it&#039;s somewhere in the postal system at the moment, I&#039;ll post an update when it joins the gang here.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think it&#039;ll be victoriatus number 16 and about 600th RR coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m glad you upgraded, anyway - and sold on your first version!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have several duplicates and have never sold a coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; Right now, I don&#039;t have a good storage plan for them - I generally put them together on trays - if I have two, I show each side.&nbsp;&nbsp; Maybe the lesser examples will end up in paper envelopes, I need to get a batch.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t set out to buy duplicates or to upgrade - in some cases, I didn&#039;t remember having the first coin (I&#039;ve made a web list of 570 RR coins I&#039;ve got to try to avoid this) or the first coin is especially bad and there&#039;s a much better upgrade available or the second coin has an interesting provenance.</p><p><br /></p><p>E.g. this Pinarius Natta (Cr. 208/1) was my only purchase at NYINC this year (only an hour at the bourse, due to tourism!):</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_PinariusNattaDena.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_PinariusNattaDena_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s really not as nice as the one I already had:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_Pinaria1Denarius.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The newer arrival has provenance back to the Duke of Northumberland Collection, while I don&#039;t know where the shinier one was before 2014.</p><p><br /></p><p>Or, I got this because it came from the Haeberlin collection, sold at auction in 1933 (part of a lot) - C. Naevius Balbus denarius (Cr. 382/1b).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_Naevia6Denarius.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Even though I had a decent example (by my standards! - the flan is too small):</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_RR_NaeviusBalbusD.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>That one came from eBay in 2006.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for control symbols - hey, they don&#039;t count as duplicates <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> - I&#039;ve 8 Cr. 340/1s (Piso Frugi I), 2 Cr. 361/1s (Crepusia) 3 Cr. 384/1s, (Papia) and a couple of Cr. 408/1s (Piso Frugi II) and intend to get more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, good upgrade and look forward to the very nice cast off <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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