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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ycon, post: 3114828, member: 91771&quot;]I wrote up a slab I purchased (and liberated) here: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/vas-electionis-of-paul-iii-by-benvenuto-cellini.315826/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/vas-electionis-of-paul-iii-by-benvenuto-cellini.315826/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/vas-electionis-of-paul-iii-by-benvenuto-cellini.315826/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I, too, think I benefited from the coin being sold as a slab. Neither NGC nor Heritage noted that the dies were by Cellini (as they would have been had the coin been sold in an Italian/european auction.) Because of that I got the coin for a relatively good price-- about the price of regular vas electionis scudo of Paul III, and not the type by Cellini (which, incidentally, Heritage lists as the same &quot;coin&quot;). </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]791072[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Papal States. Paul III (1534-1549) gold Scudo d&#039;Oro XF (AU50 NGC)</b> Rome mint, 3.33g, B-905, Fr-65. S PAVLVS VAS | ELECTIONIS, St. Paul standing facing, fleur below, head slightly right with halo, epistles in right hand, sword in left / PAVLVS III | PONT • MAX, pontifical arms. Dies by Benvenuto Cellini.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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