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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2871269, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m not the best one to start this since I do not spend this much for a coin often.&nbsp; In the other threads of the series I limited myself to coins of 2016 and 2017 but here I had to go back to 2014 to find one.</p><p><br /></p><p>From a European auction at $991 delivered was this denarius of Pescennius Niger which shared the VICTOR IVST AVG reverse with my favorite coin of Septimius Severus.&nbsp; As coins of this ruler go, this is a common type.&nbsp; I have even seen a nicer one sell recently that was a die duplicate but it was, should we say, more.&nbsp; I note few here on CT have posted a coin of Pescennius.&nbsp; I believe this is because the prevailing attitude here expects a very high grade coin for a $1000 price.&nbsp;&nbsp; There are rather few mint state coins of this ruler and they are not this cheap.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]686252[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Second is a coin everyone seems driven to own at some point but it is possible to get them for a fraction or several times the $755 I paid at a show for this 5th century BC &#039;Classical&#039; Athens tetradrachm.&nbsp; It was made more expensive by the large flan showing metal far beyond both the crest and the nose on the obverse.&nbsp; It was made cheaper by the weak strike (from the flan being too thin to fill both dies) on the owl&#039;s breast and some deposits on the obverse.&nbsp; The flan size with full strike would have cost twice as much; similat detail on a smaller flan would have been half.&nbsp; You pay your money and take your pick on these common as dirt coins.&nbsp; They come &#039;your way&#039; but that specimen may not be exactly the price you want to pay.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]686253[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>OK, bring out the $600- $1000 Big Dogs before Ides posts his promised even bigger thread that makes the $1000 coins look like Puny Puppies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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