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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;furryfrog02, post: 8284151, member: 41219&quot;]I posted yesterday about my trip to the Whitman show in Baltimore and posted a quick picture of the stuff I bought. I was pretty happy with my purchases since they presented some challenging identifications and averaged out to be $7.5 per coin. Not bad at all.</p><p>Then [USER=71599]@ancientone[/USER] pointed out the fact that one of the coins was pretty rare:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1463369[/ATTACH]</p><p>My reverse picture isn&#039;t great but it is clearer in hand than what is in the picture.</p><p>Laconia, Gythium</p><p>Septimius Severus</p><p>193-211 AD, Struck AD 202-205</p><p>Assarion Æ</p><p>21mm, 6.50g</p><p>Obverse: CЄ-OYHPOC, laureate head of Severus to right</p><p>Reverse: ΓVΘ-Є-ATΩN, the Dioscouri standing to left and right of serpent entwined altar, each holding parazonium and spear</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>I started looking and looking and found 2 examples that have sold at auctions in the last few years and one that sold in 2006:</p><p><br /></p><p>One&nbsp; from Nomos, sold in 2018 and described as &quot;Only the second, and definitively the best preserved example of this very rare type known.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://nomosag.com/default.aspx?page=ucAuctionDetails&amp;auctionid=10&amp;id=286&amp;type=webauction" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://nomosag.com/default.aspx?page=ucAuctionDetails&amp;auctionid=10&amp;id=286&amp;type=webauction" rel="nofollow">https://nomosag.com/default.aspx?page=ucAuctionDetails&amp;auctionid=10&amp;id=286&amp;type=webauction</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1463366[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And the other from Savoca, sold in December 2020 and described as &quot;The Best Known Example&quot;.</p><p><a href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/savocalondon/browse?a=899&amp;l=949796" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/savocalondon/browse?a=899&amp;l=949796" rel="nofollow">https://www.biddr.com/auctions/savocalondon/browse?a=899&amp;l=949796</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1463367[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The 2006 example was in a lot of 6 assarions from Gytheion that was sold by LHS Numismatik AG, Auction 96 but that&#039;s all I can find on it. The website for the auction house is now defunct.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1463368[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t been able to find any other examples of this coin in my available resources.&nbsp; Both coins are attributed as BCD Peloponnesos 969.1. I can&#039;t find anything with that name besides there being an auction called &quot;The Coins of Peloponnesos The BCD Collection&quot; that was the same auction that the coin from 2006 was sold in.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have any references to this coin besides what I have found? So far, I am considering mine to be the 4th known example...wishful thinking, I know haha...</p><p>The prices that the 2 most recent coins sold for is insane and would make this the rarest and most expensive coin that I have purchased (though I got it for a pittance). I&#039;m not sure what I should do with it. Any suggestions?</p><p><br /></p><p>Tagging [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] since as far as I&#039;m concerned, he is the resident Septimius Severus expert <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for looking everyone![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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