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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 2860604, member: 83175&quot;]I found that I have at least 19 coins which cost around $300 - here are some of them:</p><p><br /></p><p>This new-style Athens tetradrachm came from a CGB auction in 2004 - flatly struck and the original listing said it may have been overstruck on an earlier coin, but little enough wear - it was €250.</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_AthensTetradrachm_2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>€276 from a Kuenker auction in 2010, with a provenance to a 1930 Ars Classica auction, this Neapolis didrachm (I don&#039;t know what the white stuff is):</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_NeapolisDidrachm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>$291.20 including fees for a Nero auerus seemed a good deal in a CNG e-auction in 2010.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is a contemporary Indian imitation and the reverse legend seems garbled; the best reference I can come with is &quot;cf RIC 25, 31, 36, 40&quot;:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_NeroAureus2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This was an ugly coin to spend €250 on in 2010 from Grotjohann, but it is a very rare denarius of Otho (RIC 2 - 1 of 7 known), which has had a small hole drilled into an edge as part of published research on the metallurgy of Otho&#039;s denarii:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_OthoDenariusRIC2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>£287 for this Lysimachos tetradrachm in a 2013 Roma sale, from the Tanenbaum collection (who was Tanenbaum? - I remember googling him at the time, but can&#039;t recall any findings now):</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_Lysimachos_tetrad.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This photo&#039; is from the seller and so better, though smaller, than my efforts.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was happy to get this Augustus/Gaius denarius in 2016 for £319 from Naville:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_OctavianDenarius_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The last one is from this year - €263 from CGB for this Memmia 10/Crawford 427/1 denarius.&nbsp;&nbsp; She deserves a better photo&#039; than this &#039;phone effort:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_Memmia10Denarius.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry for length, it was hard to leave some out <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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