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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3592924, member: 88829&quot;]My problem is not having a good sense for how much to allow for a premium when the grade gets high.&nbsp; I knew that with its stellar portrait and detail in the reverse figure I would have to upgrade my value estimate on the CNG coin, but held back a bit because I don&#039;t like the lettering on part of the reverse.&nbsp; Clear lettering matters as much to me as a fine portrait or the presence of detail in reverse imaging.&nbsp; Obviously we do not all see the same things when we look at the same object.&nbsp; Nor do we put the same price tag on what we do see.&nbsp; Is that taste or market sense.&nbsp; (Ras: I do get it that auction realizations are merely the thought for the day, and a single event does not presage a trend - except when it does.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is an interesting interpretation RC, but if you look at my first denarius example you will not find any kind of fibula, nor other neck decoration.&nbsp;&nbsp; Obviously since it is a PIA FELIX from the later period, minting from Laodicea/unknown Eastern is out of the question, but your spin on the function of those marks does call into question their use as mint marks earlier. </p><p><br /></p><p>But to the part not yet addressed, is there some reason the Genetrici reverse should fetch higher prices?&nbsp; So far it seems consistent that it does.&nbsp; Pricewise your example may have been held back by graininess, if the pic is accurate, but maybe not.&nbsp; You&#039;d think that after 30+ years at this game I would have it down by now, but obviously I do not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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