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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2187372, member: 19463&quot;]A-noob&#039;s take on the Pontos really points out how different we are.&nbsp; You call the coin a &#039;personal coup&#039;.&nbsp; Many of us have posted the Perseus type ranging from scungy to wonderful but none have had as good a face on Medusa as this one.&nbsp; Understand the obverse of the coin is bad and the centering of the reverse is perfect enough to clip the corpse (I prefer coins with more body at the bottom).&nbsp; Then we have the matter of the city name.&nbsp; I believe all the examples before (save one of mine) have been from the most common Amisos.&nbsp; You trumped my Sinope with a city I had not seen before.&nbsp; There are others.&nbsp; What this horrid piece of scrap metal (condition wise) did was rub our faces in the fact that we don&#039;t have one with that Medusa face and one from that city.&nbsp; Nice coup.&nbsp; Would I buy the coin if I saw it at a show?&nbsp; Sure would!</p><p><br /></p><p>Sinope with terrible Medusa (weak body, no face), decent obverse, great centering, acceptable surfaces - in other words this is everything your coin is not and nothing your coin is.&nbsp; My Amisos example is poor compared to a couple belonging to others of the CT family but none of them got face, as I recall, either.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]424401[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]424402[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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