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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3159833, member: 19463"]TIF has the lovely one. Whether they are tigers, panthers or other cats, I can not say. Very few show any body details like hers. </p><p><br /></p><p>A couple years ago I sorted my coins and sold off a number of things I had in duplicate or felt I had outgrown. Just before mailing them off to JA for his sales, I retrieved this one when I noted that it was one of the two coins I got years ago ex John Quincy Adams collection. I would have felt bad had I sold it by accident. The coin has relatively little wear but is terribly weakly struck to the point that the centers of both sides failed to smooth out the blank flan texture. I paid $11 long ago which was at the time very high for a coin this ugly but I wanted the Presidential provenance. The JQA collection was auctioned in 1971 when the Massachusetts Historical Society decided they did not need evidence of his interest in something as un-American as ancient coins. The collection contained many coins worse (and better) with few illustrated in the catalog. My tag from the sale gives the correct lot number but, without photos, there really is no way of telling that my coin actually is the one sold on that day. I would love to have one of the lots illustrated in the catalog. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]810728[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3159833, member: 19463"]TIF has the lovely one. Whether they are tigers, panthers or other cats, I can not say. Very few show any body details like hers. A couple years ago I sorted my coins and sold off a number of things I had in duplicate or felt I had outgrown. Just before mailing them off to JA for his sales, I retrieved this one when I noted that it was one of the two coins I got years ago ex John Quincy Adams collection. I would have felt bad had I sold it by accident. The coin has relatively little wear but is terribly weakly struck to the point that the centers of both sides failed to smooth out the blank flan texture. I paid $11 long ago which was at the time very high for a coin this ugly but I wanted the Presidential provenance. The JQA collection was auctioned in 1971 when the Massachusetts Historical Society decided they did not need evidence of his interest in something as un-American as ancient coins. The collection contained many coins worse (and better) with few illustrated in the catalog. My tag from the sale gives the correct lot number but, without photos, there really is no way of telling that my coin actually is the one sold on that day. I would love to have one of the lots illustrated in the catalog. [ATTACH=full]810728[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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