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Offline Lech Stępniewski

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Strange Valens
« on: May 18, 2021, 04:21:46 pm »
Respectable auction house is now selling this coin (starting price 12 000 CHF)



But I don't like it very much. Any opinions?
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Offline Heliodromus

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Re: Strange Valens
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2021, 05:20:14 pm »
I don't like it either. Bunch of wierd things going on stylistically as well as odd looking surfaces.

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Re: Strange Valens
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2021, 06:26:50 pm »
Bunch

Yes, nearly every detail is odd.
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