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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3165167, member: 19463"]Yes, it is a fantastic coin and worth whatever you had to pay. I do not understand why someone owning that coin would sell it in a lesser publicized auction since, properly presented, this one should bring on a real bidding war. </p><p><br /></p><p>Not wishing to be <i>too</i> pushy but: the owner of that coin really needs to own one of the relatively few official fourrees from that same emergency. The problem with them is the vast majority of dealers do not know how to separate coins of the emergency from ordinary, unofficial fourrees from the periods before and after. I have seen several listed but my opinion (which means nothing) does not accept all of them as genuine 406 BC style. Svoronos plate 15 shows two of your type, several other golds, some tetradrachms and a few drachms. I would love to know if experts whose opinion most certainly outranks mine still accept all of his fourrees as correct here. </p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0890050104/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1534633738&sr=8-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0890050104/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1534633738&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0890050104/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1534633738&sr=8-1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I hope you are not tempted to cash in on this one. It strikes me as a keeper.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3165167, member: 19463"]Yes, it is a fantastic coin and worth whatever you had to pay. I do not understand why someone owning that coin would sell it in a lesser publicized auction since, properly presented, this one should bring on a real bidding war. Not wishing to be [I]too[/I] pushy but: the owner of that coin really needs to own one of the relatively few official fourrees from that same emergency. The problem with them is the vast majority of dealers do not know how to separate coins of the emergency from ordinary, unofficial fourrees from the periods before and after. I have seen several listed but my opinion (which means nothing) does not accept all of them as genuine 406 BC style. Svoronos plate 15 shows two of your type, several other golds, some tetradrachms and a few drachms. I would love to know if experts whose opinion most certainly outranks mine still accept all of his fourrees as correct here. [url]https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0890050104/ref=tmm_other_meta_binding_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1534633738&sr=8-1[/url] I hope you are not tempted to cash in on this one. It strikes me as a keeper.[/QUOTE]
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