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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Harry G, post: 7829034, member: 105282&quot;]Hi all!</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently bought this antoninianus of Probus on eBay. It is from Lugdunum mint, and it has an interesting spelling mistake in it. Instead of reading &quot;TEMPOR FELICI&quot;, it just reads &quot;TEMPR FELICI&quot;, omitting the O.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1345010[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The seller didn&#039;t mention the error in the description, and said that it was just a &quot;TEMPOR FELICI&quot; type. I managed to buy it (having paid a lot more for it than my other Probus coins lol)</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin also came with some nice provenance, having apparently been part of the Linchmere Hoard, which was found way back in 1924. However, the seller didn&#039;t provide any proof in the listing, so I tried to find some.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found an old analysis of the Hoard off Jstor, and went to the page where it listed all the types. Surprisingly, my coin was not there; the only similar coins were 10 TEMPOR FELICI types</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1345011[/ATTACH] </p><p>When the coin arrived today, the seller was kind enough to provide information about where it came from. It turns out a lot of the coins found in the Linchmere Hoard that the landowner was allowed to keep were auctioned back in May 2021 from an auction house that didn&#039;t specialise in coins:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.lawrences.co.uk/sales/fine-art-sales/fc270521/view-lot/888/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.lawrences.co.uk/sales/fine-art-sales/fc270521/view-lot/888/" rel="nofollow">https://www.lawrences.co.uk/sales/fine-art-sales/fc270521/view-lot/888/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><b>Lot 888</b></font></p><p>ANTONINIANUS OF PROBUS 276-282. Radiate bust r. within legend IMP C PROBUS P F AUG. Reverse female figure of Felicitas holding cornucopiae and caduceus within TEMPOR FELICI. Mint mark I for Gaul. Webb records 133 coins from this reign amongst the hoard, 10 with the legend Tempor Felici to the reverse. Provenance: The Linchmere Hoard, Miss Abbott and thence by descent.</p><p><b>Estimate: £20 - £30</b></p><p><b>Sold for £30.00</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>(<i>It looks like I spent more than double what the seller I bought it from paid lol</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like the auction house also misdescribed the coin, and that it did indeed come from the Linchmere Hoard.</p><p><br /></p><p>Show me some error coins, or some coins with nice provenance![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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