Well this is unique!

My first thought would be to lay the pieces on a train track and see if the locomotive reassembled them.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

When mine is working, if I give it more than a few sheets of paper at a time it quits. What took out the aureus must be some kind of heavy duty industrial shredder. On another note a friend of mine owned a siliqua of Constantine III and sat on it breaking it into three pieces. It was corroded and somewhat thin and brittle so I could sort of see it. Many years ago I did hear of a Ptolemaic tetradrachm shattering when it was dropped and hitting the floor. I cannot verify this event as being true.
I looked up Caracalla RIC 227 on Wildwinds and it would appear that this was the coin before it met up with modern technology . Emphasis on WAS Please note This is not my coin

 

My guess: it began with a coin collection stored in nice, big manila envelopes for careful safekeeping, and it ended with Merani 'finally getting round to cleaning all this mess on my desk'...

Sad, and yet, irresistibly funny

Lady Providentia on the reverse apparently had an off-day as well...

 

The grade is high and the surfaces quite lovely. I suggest slabbing it.

 

"Somewhat tooled" should specify the tag

Q

 

After clicking on this thread, I for the first time in my life thought that there is something to be said in favor of "trigger warnings." This has caught me off-guard and is unexpectedly painful to look at!

 

That's quite tragic, but very funny lol.

Here's the link if anyone wants to check it out in the auction: https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/...us-195mm-699-g-6h-rome-mint-struck-ad-212-213

 

I would be curious to see the coin before its unfortunate encounter with the shredder. It was apparently whole in e-38, 24 September 2001, lot 64326.

The earliest e-auction I can find in the current web site "Research" is e-89, May 5, 2004, lot 1. https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=50163

The "Wayback" machine shows what the CNG home page looked like in 2002, but the links to the auction categories were not preserved and are not clickable.
https://web.archive.org/web/20020924122404/http://cngcoins.com/

 

What’s the fineness of these coins? For 24k gold melt of 7 grams is like $394, which is about all that the coin is good for now

 

I'm not sure it deserves to be called a "coin" anymore. Those pieces don't even look like they add up to a whole. It takes some chutzpah to try to sell them at this point.

 

I’m still trying to wrap my head around this entire situation. On the bright sides the local gold smelter won’t care about what’s in it long as it’s fine, haha

 

I get the mental image of an unfaithful numismatist and an agry wife.

 

Really nice guy, @Barry Murphy I wonder if there's more to the story that you are aware and or are able to share?

 

I think Barry is with NGC, not CNG. Two different animals!