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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2850097, member: 19463&quot;]Again I&#039;m limiting myself to 2017 and later 2106 so the prices might mean something.&nbsp; I&#039;m also omitting bulk lot coins which usually wouldn&#039;t be necessary in this bracket but this was a strange year for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rather than giving standard catalog info,&nbsp; I will add a word on why I bought the coin or what made it worth $100 or so.</p><p><br /></p><p>2017</p><p>Philip I Alexandria tetradrachm Serapis - $99 eBay - I could not resist this great Cerberus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]676212[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]676214[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan denarius showing his biological father&nbsp; - DIVVS PATER TRAIAN - $105 coin show</p><p>[ATTACH=full]676217[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>2016</p><p>This one will not impress most of you but...</p><p>Decentius AE3 falling horseman barbarous - $90 - VCoins</p><p>The most rare falling horseman is the Magnentius.&nbsp; This one reads Decentius which does not exist from an official mint.&nbsp; Yes, it is a barbarous junker but it is quite possibly the closest thing I&#039;ll ever see.&nbsp; This is the most rare coin in my collection.&nbsp; It does not exist but here it is. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]676224[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This Justinian II 20 nummi K was struck on one quarter of a earlier 40 nummi of Constantine IV - $100 - Frank Robinson</p><p><br /></p><p>I would have bought this one anyway but it carries a little extra interest because &#039;this coin&#039; is illustrated in David Sear&#039;s Byzantine Coins and their Values.&nbsp; That means little except I remember noticing this coin many years ago when I first bought the Sear book.&nbsp; I was attracted to the precise quartering on reasonable centering of the overtype.&nbsp; I suppose it would be nice to have a little more undertype but I felt lucky to find a coin with which I had been familiar for so long.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]676225[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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