Want a Proculus?

I just received an auction catalog through the mail yesterday. On the cover is beautifully shot beaten up ancient of Proculus. The auction is on April 10th 2013 and the catalog lists an expected value of 50 - 70,000 pounds!

Here is some info I have dug up on the web.
http://regator.com/p/259723508/proc...up_for_sale/
Thought you might find this interesting. Hmmm...should I bid? lol.

Proculus, AE Antoninianus. Usurper 280-281 AD.
Unknown Gallic mint.
Obv: IMP C PROCVLVS AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust right
Rev: (VI)CTORIA AV(G), female figure standing left, holding wreath and sceptre.

 

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Pocket change for Jerry.

 

No problem. I'll write a check.

 

...bounced...

 

I like this coin more then the EID Mar, lol.

 

You got to be kidding me.

 

ima bid 52 and hope for the best.

 

Here is some more information about the coin.

http://paul-barford.blogspot.be/2013/03/proculus-coin-up-for-sale_20.html

 

If you can bid 52,000 Quid at 11 years old, Why would you need to buy and sell coins for small profits?

 

Its a neat coin, but for some reason the website says that I can't open the webpage because of insuffcient funds. lol

 

i may have my manservant wimbly place a bid on this for me......i'm afraid i'll be at the yacht club during the entire affair.

 

Well it's odd that they're not forthcoming about its authenticity.

 

indeed..

 

Well there is one currently on Ebay for $16. God bless his little black heart.

 

Yeah, and it's in MUCH better condition.

 

Numiswiki :
Proculus, a usurper in Gaul, born among the Albigauni, a people of the maritime Alps (now Albenga, on the coast of Genoa), a powerful man, of outrageous lustfulness. At Lyons he was named Emperor, at first in jest, but being proclaimed as such in good earnest, his revolt was speedily suppressed by Probus, and he himself was put to death near Cologne, about the time that Bonosus and Saturninus met the same fate. -Goltzius gives a coin as belonging to this Proculus, and Medoabarbus publishes another, equally unauthenticated.

 

Well if you're going to be lustful, you may as well be outrageous. What would be the point of lukewarm lustfulness?

 

Eh, the patina doesn't match my Domitian II. I'll pass.

 

Yeah, I'd hold out. You wouldn't want the wrong coin.

 

Seriously! All this coin has is rarity. Interest? Who is he? What did he accomplish? How would history be altered had he never lived? I'd much rather have a selection of unique coins or a pile of beautiful ones adding up to the same amount. When I think about Roman coins I prefer to think of the ones that were spent, that supported the economy, that served as propoganda or that could go down in history as fine art. Give me a so-so EID MAR, a mint Constantine snake, a full legend Noah's Ark commemorative, a proof Caligula sistertius or Titus Colosseum, an average Akragas 10dr or even a mint state set of Falling Horsemen. Keep your whatshisnames.