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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3206250, member: 74282&quot;]One of the coins that I waffled over the most but finally knew I had to buy was this &quot;CA&quot; series triens overstruck on Oiniadai, Akarnania Zeus/Acheloüs. This was always my favorite coin in the entire [USER=44183]@stevex6[/USER] collection, one I would have bid on in the CNG sale where he won it had I not exhausted my budget earlier on and it was by far my favorite example of this type among around 50 examples in my photofile. When his collection went up for sale I knew I wanted it, but the price was a little steep and even after the dealer Steve consigned his coins to lowered to price closer to the CNG sale price I still felt the coin was a bit expensive for my tastes but I just couldn&#039;t stop thinking about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think what finally made me buy it was seeing that the eBay listing had expired and panicking a bit thinking it had sold. Once I saw that it had been re-listed it was a no brainer and I quickly hit that &quot;buy it now&quot; button and brought it home. The rational side of me still feels like I may have overpaid a bit for it at about $370 shipped but it&#039;s quickly become one my favorite coins, easily in the top 5 and I&#039;ve paid more for coins I liked less so I really can&#039;t complain. To me it was well worth it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]831122[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;Roman Republic Æ Triens(20mm, 5.88g, 12h), anonymous(&quot;CA&quot; series), 209-195 B.C., Canusium(?) mint. Helmeted head of Minerva right; above, •••• / Prow right; above, ROMA; below, ••••; to right, CA. Crawford 100/3; Sydenham 309c</p><p>Overstruck on Oiniadai, Akarnania Zeus/Acheloüs, cf. BCD Akarnania 345-348 for undertype. For CA triens overstruck on Oiniadai cf. Hersh NC 1953, 14 and cf. Crawford Table XVIII, 91</p><p>Ex Stevex6 Collection via coin.ages, eBay, January 27 2018, ex RBW Collection, CNG e-auction 364, December 2 2015, lot 90, <a href="http://gallery.respublicacoins.com/picture.php?/137/category/3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gallery.respublicacoins.com/picture.php?/137/category/3" rel="nofollow">ex Stacks Coin Galleries, August 20 1986, lot 117, ex Frederick S. Knobloch Collection, Stacks May 4 1978, lot 90</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A nice illustration if you can&#039;t quite make out all the undertype:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]831124[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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