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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2836980, member: 19463&quot;]This is a great idea for a thread but I hope we will see not only bargains but examples where we paid $75 for a $25 coin.&nbsp; I decided to limit my offerings to coins from 2017 and only have two in the $65-75 range.&nbsp; I hope we will do this for other spreads after this has run its course.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both of my coins were from a Baltimore coin show but two different dealers.&nbsp; Barely squeaking in at the bottom $65 is an as of Augustus from the mint at Lugdunum showing the great altar there ROM ET AVG.&nbsp; I would not have paid that much for the coin except that it has a great strike of a Tiberius countermark TIB CA F.&nbsp; The same coin was made under Tiberius with his legends but this struck me as a way to kill two birds with one stone.&nbsp; To me, a bonus was the weird way the I was done in the countermark which required the box around it to have a bumped out space at the top.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]670126[/ATTACH] </p><p>I got the above coin after another member of our CT group had finished going through the box it was in so he passed on it.&nbsp; I did not hesitate.&nbsp; While he was looking at that table, I was next door looking through the wares of another seller first so I do not know if he or anyone else would have paid $78 for the Geta denarius with Minerva reverse below.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]670127[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is a Rome mint coin and the less common of the Geta Minerva offerings since it names the goddess rather than having a dated reverse legend.&nbsp; This coin was in a reasonable size group from an old collection with toned coins that had not been on the market for a long time.&nbsp; To me, the toning and legend offset the ragged edge but I would have bought this coin anyway since I like Severan period Minerva coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>That day, I bought four coins from each of those two dealers but the others were either above or below our target price. Since this was a show, there was no shipping but my share of the carpool costs for gas and parking came to a few dollars a coin which I split up between the nine coins bought that day.&nbsp;&nbsp; I guess that is like postage???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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