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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2855449, member: 19463&quot;]More:</p><p>From the same show as the Ardashir but a different seller is a coin like you would expect me to buy but most people would not appreciate.&nbsp; I like these Julia Domna, Emesa, denarii that use reverses more common for male rulers even though I strongly disagree with those who consider them mules.&nbsp; That mint did not play by the rules of Rome.&nbsp; What is unusual about this coin is that it is higher grade than most I buy.&nbsp; I did not have the type so I paid the price ($200) but admit I would not minded a little more wear and a $50 price tag.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]678682[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A month later in 2016 brought another show and this Thorioi bull nomos, also $200.&nbsp; It could show better definition on the upper horn of the bull but has a strong eye and tone more attractive than the photo shows.&nbsp; I bought it partly out of peer pressure. I was going through a half price box (the marked $400 was a stretch) and I knew the guy next in line for the box well enough to be sure he would buy it.&nbsp; It was now or never.&nbsp; I will not ask a dealer to &#039;reserve&#039; a coin for me while I think about it considering that dirty play.&nbsp; Maybe a new photo will make you see why I took it.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]678685[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]679227[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Finally is the coin I bought with the least hesitation of my collecting life.&nbsp; I paid using PayPal within 30 seconds of seeing it listed.&nbsp;&nbsp; The seller (a VCoins seller I use regularly) knew what it was and priced it at a number I could accept ($210 delivered).&nbsp; I would have paid more but at least one CT regular told me they had seen it and passed so I may have just been the right person for the right coin.&nbsp; Since first showing it, I have had more than a couple inquiries wanting to buy it (but none offered a price).&nbsp; I would be happy to pass your interest, if any to my grandson but, if he sells it, I will be hauntingly disappointed.&nbsp; For anyone who has missed the dozen times I have posted it, the coin is a Class A3 Anonymous follis overstruck on an as of Gordian III.&nbsp; That is just short of 800 years between strikes.&nbsp; This is the kind of coin I seek most on my want statement: &quot;Coins I did not know existed.&quot;&nbsp; If you have trouble seeing Gordian, tilt your head left.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]678706[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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