If, I did....I would have! Unfortunately, I have NEVER won at anything. That coin was in Ars Classical Auction. It was the most $ ever paid for a Roman coin. John
This coin also shows that Ancient coins are much more affordable, considering their history/rarity. Like 1.6 million SFRS ain't bad for a coin of this pedigree (unique) Imagine a US coin....it would be 30 million +++ I saw in Pogue coll. some US (Turban Head) half Eagles in MS-65 go for more. Lets hope the status quo remains the same, otherwise prices will get crazy for ancients too. I won a "unique" unpublished AV tremissis of unknown Visgoth king, which imitated a Eastern Roman tremissis of Marcianus in EF+ for 1200 euros/ imagine a similar British/US/German coin.
Another gorgeous coin I'd LOVE to own!!! I'm after a gold type at the moment, Greek not Roman, but it seems I should have retired from a lifetime of landscaping and not retail and/or governmental employment.....
I think to get into 8 Aurei class of AV coins....Movie Star/Wall Street Tycoon/Pop Star/Baseball/Basketball/Hockey/Soccer player!
"""The rumor that some huge Arras gold medallions were melted down has been convincingly refuted by P. Bastien in his monograph on the hoard, Le trésor de Beaurains (dit d'Arras), 1977, pp. 14-15. "The foreman reported seeing a gold medallion of Nero, the size of a saucer." But it is impossible to believe that any such gigantic gold medallions were produced at such an early date! Two workers were said to have brought two gold medallions of Constantius I to the local museum curator, and to have sold them as bullion to a jeweler when told they were fake. But the curator himself denied having condemned any medallions from the hoard. Other coins from the hoard were alleged to have been destroyed by letting trains run over them on the railway tracks! Bastien concludes: "Nothing in the behavior of the finders permits me to believe that they would have made such mistakes, so I think the 'numismatic tragedy' deplored by A. Evans never actually took place. "Having misappropriated a substantial portion of the hoard, the Belgian workers spread the rumor that the coins had been destroyed or melted down. Then, in small groups and over a period of years, they sold the pieces that they had pretended no longer to possess."""" The arras medallion of 10 Aureii
