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Offered This Sestertius.

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 Posted 09/02/2014  1:35 pm Show Profile   Check MetDet71's eBay Listings Bookmark this topic Add MetDet71 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Just been sent pics of this coin, don't have size or weight yet and these are sellers pics. Thoughts? He is asking 250.



Offered-This-Sestertius.

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 Posted 09/02/2014  2:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nice coin Kev, can't say much on the price. There are a couple of examples on wildwinds.
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seems a bit expensive PP. I think I might pass on it. One on wildwinds went for about 55 pounds so a bit of a difference!
Nice coin though.
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 Posted 09/02/2014  2:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Really nice looking coin, I think that the bust might have been tooled a bit to bring out the details. If it was whoever did it did a good job. Price isn't over the top tough if tooled it's value wouldn't as much.
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Kev the one I was looking at was RIC 594b which went for about £165, more legend on the reverse than yours , 2005.
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Nice coin but too expensive I think
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I tend to think that the bust has been tooled. Outwardly I wouldnt think the price is absurd but I do believe the coin to have been altered, and possible some details to have been re engraved.
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Looks like a decent quality EF. Checking auction prices realized though. I'd be more at $150 for a fair price.
Anoob makes a good point, although I can't say whether or not it's true.
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I actually think the price is low, if the coin is real. Sestertii are always sought after by collectors. Middle bronzes, not so much. Here are same (or similar) type coins:
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=354509
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1257717
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1484688 (use this high grade one to do a stylistic compare on Hadrian bust, hair, to see where tooling might have occurred)
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=300381

In looking over other comparables, the softness of the strike on the obverse legend really bothers me.
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