A previously unrecorded Constantine I reverse

I just made a page for this previously unrecorded bronze coin for Constantine I

http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/VICTORIA/



feel free to post your examples

 

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Great page and neat coin

 

That is indeed very exciting! I'd love to have another example to post, but in the meantime I'll be keeping my eyes open. There's got to be a few lurking in all those bags of LRB's you can search through at some shows.

 

Nice find that's pretty sweet

 

there are undoubtedly more great finds out there...this one came from an otherwise uninteresting lot from eBay.

 

Wow that's really cool!

 

Ditto

 

A really cool find. I watched it sell and am glad it found the home it needed and deserved.

 

What a wonderful discovery... Congrats!

 

Did you win that coin, Victor? If so, I'm glad it went to someone who could appreciate it. Either way, a helpful and interesting write-up. I suspect that in a few decades collectors will look back at this time when people could still find unlisted variants and be envious of a field still alive to new discoveries.

 

Yes, I won it; but I only wanted this coin to catalogue and examine in hand. I was glad, though, to be the intermediary for the museum acquisition.

 

That's great, Victor. And good for you for getting it properly curated. If you don't mind my asking, what was the process? Did you contact the Arles museum and let them know of the find and why it was significant? Did they compensate you at fair market value, like the British Museum would for a treasure-trove find deemed to be of cultural significance?

And feel free to tell me to mind my own business if these questions are too personal. I don't need to know amounts; I'm just curious about the process that got it from your hands to Arles.

 

The buyer for the museum (who has bought a few coins from me) heard that I had this coin. I posted about it on my LRB forum and there were topics elsewhere, so it was easy enough to find out that I had this coin. He told me the museum would like to acquire it and we made a deal.

 

Very nice victor. Congrats on adding yet more scholarship to this area.

 

Very cool, thanks for sharing the exciting news. Not too often that a new reverse type is discovered.

 

Interesting! You should submit that article to KOINON to be published!

 

That's a very interesting type, I doubt many more if any will appear. I've found many rarities on ebay, from the price though it seems that a few others spotted it as well.

 

That is an amazing find @Victor_Clark

 

Yes, it is probably the best coin I have ever "discovered"

"Discovered" is in quotes, as I was not the only one that noticed this coin. Not everyone that saw it knew what it was though, but I think many knew it was something special. I am glad to have been part of it.

 

Good job spotting that and getting it placed in the appropriate museum. Once again private collectors are working to preserve ancient coins.

That seems like a very high price for that lot of 6 coins. Several bidders must have been aware or thought there was something rare in it.