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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7513293, member: 99456"]While I personally wouldn't pay 700 EUR for any Gordian III coin, I can understand why condition rarity might make it hard enough to find a perfectly centered coin with fresh dies that a couple of people looking for perfect coins could end up fighting over it : so far that hasn't prevented me from buying inferior coins at reasonable prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the example of [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], there must be more than one Faustina or Pamphylia specialist who felt this rare coin was worth almost 400 EUR. ("Very rare" with RPC IV.3 online <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8343" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8343" rel="nofollow">8343</a> 2 specimens). We all look for different things in coins - for me the 400 EUR Faustina would be an uninteresting "duplicate" - but I can understand how someone else might see it very differently.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1298057[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Roman Imperial, Faustina II</b> (wife of M. Aurelius), AR Denarius, Rome, AD 147-175</p><p><b>Obv:</b> FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust right</p><p><b>Rev: </b>SAECVLI FELICIT, pulvinar, upon which are Commodus and Antoninus</p><p><b>Ref: </b>RIC <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.m_aur.712" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.m_aur.712" rel="nofollow">712 (Aurelius)</a>; RSC 191; BMCRE 139 (Aurelius)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7513293, member: 99456"]While I personally wouldn't pay 700 EUR for any Gordian III coin, I can understand why condition rarity might make it hard enough to find a perfectly centered coin with fresh dies that a couple of people looking for perfect coins could end up fighting over it : so far that hasn't prevented me from buying inferior coins at reasonable prices. As for the example of [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER], there must be more than one Faustina or Pamphylia specialist who felt this rare coin was worth almost 400 EUR. ("Very rare" with RPC IV.3 online [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8343']8343[/URL] 2 specimens). We all look for different things in coins - for me the 400 EUR Faustina would be an uninteresting "duplicate" - but I can understand how someone else might see it very differently. [ATTACH=full]1298057[/ATTACH] [B]Roman Imperial, Faustina II[/B] (wife of M. Aurelius), AR Denarius, Rome, AD 147-175 [B]Obv:[/B] FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust right [B]Rev: [/B]SAECVLI FELICIT, pulvinar, upon which are Commodus and Antoninus [B]Ref: [/B]RIC [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.m_aur.712']712 (Aurelius)[/URL]; RSC 191; BMCRE 139 (Aurelius)[/QUOTE]
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