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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 8184988, member: 134416&quot;]What are your (realistic) collecting holy grails?&nbsp; I.e. what individual coins are you looking for the most over the years?&nbsp; Decrepit placeholders count.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve done most of mine; I still want a Sulla portrait denarius (how much does a decent Fine one go for nowadays?), a Constantine III siliqua (on the edge of realistic), a Carausius Denarius/Argentius (a few years ago, one turned up on vcoins for c. 700 - I should have bought it!) a Eugenius and an Alexandrian Hadrian Drachm with a smooth, glossy chocolate patina. Oh, and I&#039;m probably mangling the Italian title, but the book Le Preziose Patina.&nbsp; I remember reading it at my college library (the librarian is a Byzantine expert (hopefully he&#039;s still with us&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).&nbsp; Perhaps someday a decrepit Priscus Attalus AE3 will turn up at auction (Judy Tenuda voice; it could happen!).&nbsp; That&#039;s somewhat outside the bounds of realistic, but weirder things have happened.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although it&#039;s a tiny subset, patina collecting is one of my collecting interests.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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