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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 953994, member: 19463&quot;]5 is Antoninus Pius and 7 is Caracalla.&nbsp; The first two are rare but the condition makes them less than high demand items.&nbsp; A few years ago #2 would have brought a good premium but enough of the Alexandria mint coins have shown up in recent hoards, I suspect it would sell as well as a regular Rome mint Albinus of its grade which is still more than the others.&nbsp; I bought four of them before I figured out that they were not as rare as I thought.&nbsp; A few are VF but not great strikes or surfaces.&nbsp; I suspect they were sorted by value since the more desirable ones are low grade and the better grade ones are more common.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>90% of ancients were not struck well enough to be graded Unc when they left the mint.&nbsp; It makes little difference whether detail was lost to poor strike or to wear.&nbsp; Risking a guess:&nbsp; perhaps $200-250.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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