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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4858949, member: 19463&quot;]Coins with historical value need to retain enough design that they are identifiable with some certainty and show enough legends that you can read at least a bit of the history.&nbsp; I can not imagine why anyone would pay $5 for a coin with no details unless it were so rare that its existence was history.&nbsp; This is a common type.&nbsp; Decent coins are like educational books.&nbsp; When terribly corroded, they are like the ashes you get when you burn a book.&nbsp; Their information is lost.&nbsp; I hate to see beginners spending hundreds of dollars on many things they will not learn from and passing them on to other beginners (often at a profit) who believe anything that old has some mystical value.&nbsp; I do suggest spending $10-20 on one &#039;book&#039; rather than 2-20 piles of &#039;ashes&#039;.&nbsp; There is no need to follow the fad believing that only Mint State coins are collectible but there is a lower limit under which the benefit gained is not worth the trouble for the beginner.&nbsp; Coins like this (or better most likely) were sacrificed by the scholars that determined the orichalcum used in them matched that used in Rome rather than in the East showing the coins were made in Rome and shipped East for use.&nbsp; Those destroyed coins will live on as historical documents even though they no longer exist as physical pieces of metal.&nbsp; Collectors need to discriminate between things from which they can learn and things better left to the scientists. I regret no one commented, confirmed or denied my&nbsp; ID of the coin.&nbsp; What we got was arguments over SC.&nbsp; Are all SC&#039;s the same?&nbsp; Because someone writes a theory are we all to accept it without question?&nbsp; Did the people who made or used these coins know or care about the meaning of the SC?&nbsp; IDK.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do those reading this far see any significance in the SC&nbsp; being in Latin letters while the rest of the legend is in Greek?&nbsp; Can you ID the coin below?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1173183[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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