Other Purchases From The Central States Show

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Paul Bulgerin Pillar of the Community United States 3098 Posts	Posted 05/01/2022 8:48 pm Here are my other two purchases from the Central States show yesterday. Car trouble wiped out the plans my friend Bill and I had to go on Thursday but we did make it for the final day of the show. A lot of dealers had already headed out but there were still a handful of tables selling ancient coins. The first is a silvered Probus SOLI INVICTO antoninanus with facing quadriga. This coin was my #1 goal for the show. Then there was this gorgeous Lucius Verus denarius with beautiful blue and gold toning. It was the most expensive ancient coin I have ever purchased but worth it. Paul Bulgerin Report this Post to the Staff

Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 05/01/2022 9:11 pm You did well. Two more great pickups. Wow, that Probus is sharp - great strike, and it's held up well. Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34397 Posts	Posted 05/01/2022 9:27 pm That forward-facing quadriga is pretty cool. I don't remember seeing a design with this vantage point before. It must be significantly less common than the side view, or is it just that I haven't been paying close enough attention? "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
Coinfrog Bedrock of the Community United States 94367 Posts	Posted 05/01/2022 9:33 pm Agree, nice purchases. Report this Post to the Staff
maridvnvm Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2099 Posts	Posted 05/03/2022 11:32 am Fantastic Probus.... The front facing quadriga is a common enough type for Probus and was produced across multiple mints. The superb example above is about as good as they get for these and comes from Cyzicus and is RIC 911 Bust Type H. We should be able to easily identify the date of the coin based on the mint mark. There is a peculiarity with this one. I originally read it as CM/XXIP but there appears to be something odd with the last letter. The only other option would be CM/XXIB but that doesn't seem to fit either. CM/XXIR would make no sense at all so it is either CM/XXIP with an engraver error on the P or CM/XXIB with a poorly formed lower part of the B. Emission 3 Officina 1. A.D. 280 Emission 4 Officina 2. A.D. 281 Regards, Martin Report this Post to the Staff
numismatic student Bedrock of the Community United States 11880 Posts	Posted 05/03/2022 10:07 pm Great acquisitions! IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website:https://fairfaxcoins.com Report this Post to the Staff
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