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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3661533, member: 19463&quot;]The funny part is I bought it from High Ratings, Low Prices.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how many others have bought and sold it.&nbsp; I paid $175 which I do not consider all that cheap since the GGG is not bold and the mintmark is missing.&nbsp; I am not shrewd.&nbsp; I am cheap.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]984495[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The one below is mine, too.&nbsp; I almost passed it due to the GGG being off flan and the surface problems but I decided it was worth the $125 York Coins was asking.&nbsp; There was no haggling on it.</p><p><img src="https://jp29.org/534o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="https://jp29.org/534r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>IMP C MAXIMIANVS P AVG</b> .............................................. <b>PAX AVGGG</b> | <b>S P</b></p><p><b>M L XXXI</b> in reverse exergue</p><p>[ATTACH=full]984499[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I am not driven to own any coin at any price.&nbsp; Many of the coins I have bought in the last 30 years would be lucky to bring what I paid mostly because many dealers think they need to double their money on each sale.&nbsp; I liked Tom Cederlind as someone to talk to at shows but we rarely came to agreement on prices.&nbsp; I rarely even asked since the shows always had more coins than I could afford at prices I considered reasonable from other sellers.&nbsp; Oddly, at almost every show I would buy at least one coin from someone at a price they set (no wheeling and dealing) that I would have paid more for if necessary.&nbsp; What makes a coin appeal to me may be different than what makes a coin appeal to you and a thousand other collectors.&nbsp; That is why I hate questions on CT that include &quot;What&#039;s it worth?&quot;&nbsp; Most of these coins are not worth anything to 90% of the people at the coin show (they buy proof sets and bullion?) and it is a lot easier to find someone willing to tell you a coin is valuable than it is to find someone who actually will pay all that for it.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m like that, too. I have too many coins now so I don&#039;t feel as driven to buy now like I did a decade or three ago.&nbsp; That said, I would love to have more of the Carausius coins struck for his &#039;brothers&#039; and I hope the next ones have better centering.&nbsp; I really prefer coins with everything on flan.&nbsp; I like the Antony below despite it being well off center.&nbsp; It is hard to find everything on flan AND this off center!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]984503[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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