I ended up getting two nice coins from Bern AV Duplone 1797 7.62g. 27mm. Bern FDC AV 1/2 Duplone 1797 3.80g. 21mm. Bern FDC
Esp. the upcoming Roma XX! $$$$$$ is always a problem for me/ never enough of it Also got one bid in Leu event. John
I couldn't agree more and have had a long standing interest in ancients but they nice ones seem to be way out of my price range. The Aureo & Calico sale today has some of the finest fractional reales I have ever seen and funds mean I have to choose - hopefully I will get one and hope that there are more amazing half and one reales buried in collections somewhere!
One example to prove how prices are insane, I won a FDC AV 1633 K-B Dukat from Hungary/ HRE Ferdinand II for 3400euros =Polish Zlotys in 2016. A similar coin realized 13K euros in Slovak auction 2019! Soon it will be a hobby for the super rich.
Yes, Bern was named after the "Brown Bear" In 1798, the French army invaded Bern under First Consul/ Napoleon Bonaparte. It regained its independence after Napoleon was defeated at Leipzig in 1813.
