Gordian Medallion just a tad out of my price range

I got an e-mail from biddr this morning about the upcoming Numismatica Genevensis auction. There was a nice Gordian III ADLOCVTIO medallion ...



There was just one little problem ...

 

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LOL.

 

Let me grab my wallet real quick...

 

"I'll give you $10 for it and I'm taking a massive risk here"

 

With a starting price of 125,000 CHF you might stand a chance of winning the medallion if you sell your home & all your possessions, & auction your family into slavery . I noticed in the same auction they have an example of the famous Naxsos tetradrachm like the one I posted yesterday with a starting price of 25,000 CHF.


The Becker forgery I posted yesterday is a better looking coin !

 

Is it?

Another doozy currently selling for less than 1/100th of the Gordy 3 (who would spend that much on Gordian III???) is this Judgment of Paris...and it's still too expensive for me:

TROAS. Scepsis. Caracalla (198-217). Ae.

Obv: AY KAI M AYPH ANTΩNINOC.
Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right.
Rev: CKHΨIΩN ΔAPΔA.
The Judgement of Paris: Eros on rock advancing left and holding out an apple to Aphrodite, standing right and holding sceptre; behind her, Hera holding sceptre and Athena with spear and shield; to right, mountain-god Ida on tree.

M. Bernhart, Aphrodite auf griechischen Münzen (1934), no. 314.

 

What does CHF stand for ?

 

Swiss franc. Google is your friend...

 

I noted that the shields carried by the soldiers on the OP coin are rectangular still. They switched to round shields, characteristic of the late empire in the latter 3rd century.

 

Well, when in doubt, I tend to believe the celator who saw the armies with their own eyes if it was contemporaneous. Kind of like you should trust someone who lived in the 60's versus a millennial historian who reads about the 60's. Maybe the transition started but the square shields were for formal occasions? I love to buy the XXXX Byzantine follis because modern teachers still teach the "rule" that XXXX is not allowed in ROMAN lettering. Sorry, if the ROMANS did it, its "allowed".

 

Maybe to let me know it is a Swiss Franc, but not what the letters CHF actually mean/stand for ??? F is obviously franc. CH ???

 

"CHF stands for Confoederatio Helvetica franc, where Confoederatio Helvetica is the Latin name for the Swiss Confederation"

 

Is that actually an option? (Asking for a friend.)

 

Does your wife have access to your CoinTalk account? (Asking for a friend).

 

Maybe GOOGLE it. Takes mere seconds…

 

If we Google everything there would be no conversa..................

 

Um hello I did and it still did not tell me what the CH stands for. Maybe read my post.

 

Thank you. That was the answer I was looking for.