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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1235872, member: 19463&quot;]Any ancient gold for 1.5x melt would be really ugly, probably holed and questionably fake.&nbsp; For $300 you could get a fair condition Athenian owl tetradrachm but nice ones are more.&nbsp; The other popular choice is a coin of Alexander the great but they will also not be perfect looking at that price.&nbsp; There are thousands of ancients under $300 but few of them are larger than a nickel, silver and cheap.&nbsp; The easy answer there would be an antoninianus of a Roman emperor you have never heard of (Gordian III, Philip I) which could be as little as $20 but things that hit all the popular categories you mention tend to sell for more.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" rel="nofollow">My series above shows a lot of coins I like but some are over $300 (mostly the larger silver ones).&nbsp; You might benefit from scanning the examples,&nbsp; On the fourth page of the series there is a very nice gold coin that belonged to a friend about 20 years ago when it was worth $5000.&nbsp; At 7g and smaller diameter than a nickel it fails your guidelines but I&#039;d love to have it.&nbsp; </a></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html" rel="nofollow"></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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