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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2837329, member: 19463&quot;]When I think of &#039;the good old days&#039; I include a time when HJB was a specialist in Byzantine coins and had no one on staff who cared about Severans.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then he hired Curtis Clay and all the sleepers dried up.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you look at my catalog of purchases you will find more than one example of a seller who lost my business by hiring someone who knew more than I did about the coins I wanted and started pricing them accordingly.&nbsp; I remember one Baltimore show when I spent a lot of time showing one dealer how to spot Alexandria mint denarii.&nbsp; At the next show, they were no longer in the $20 box.&nbsp; Education can have a downside especially when you are not the one who got educated. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Was this a trick question?&nbsp; I&#039;d guess you would find dozens of that common but popular Maximianus for every commemorative from series II of Claudius no matter what the reverse.&nbsp; I agree the coin would have trouble finding a fan club due to the small flan but it is something some (I, anyway) would like to find.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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