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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AncientJoe, post: 3165293, member: 44357&quot;]Thanks everyone! I appreciate the compliments and the ability to share with the group!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I too was very surprised to see this consigned to Stack&#039;s. It was consigned by John Whitney Walter&#039;s estate: he passed away earlier this year. He had an extensive collection of ancients (and US: he was &quot;Mr 1796&quot;) including the &quot;Men of Rome&quot; collection of aurei which Stack&#039;s sold in 1990. At that time, Stack&#039;s was a premier auction house for ancients but these days that isn&#039;t the case. All of the coins in this consignment were slabbed and had 90s-era estimates in many cases. My guess is that he had long-ago written that Stack&#039;s should sell his remaining coins and never revised it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I will certainly attempt to find a definitively attributed fourree but it will be challenging as a few of the ones I&#039;ve been offered either jumped out to me as blatant fakes or an incorrect style. The ANS has a few fourree tetradrachms and one of these days I need to inspect their fabric in person to get a better feel of real ones as I&#039;m skeptical of all but a few of the ones that have sold publicly in the last ~10 years.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is absolutely a keeper for me. I&#039;ll see many Eid Mar denarii in the next few decades but very well may never have an opportunity to purchase Athens gold from this period again. With most types, there exists a duality: a number of examples will be sold at auction and a handful will trickle out privately to eventually resurface. Outside of Berk who sold this coin to Whitney Walter in the 90s, I haven&#039;t been able to find a single dealer who has sold an example privately, despite querying the usual suspects who have 40-50+ years of experience. I wouldn&#039;t be surprised if another shows up eventually from some old European collection but who knows how long that may take.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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