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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 1571977, member: 42034&quot;]Hi &amp; Thanks very much for your message.&nbsp; The Claudius II is quite nice in person and apparently quite rare: I&#039;ve been helped by Dane aka &quot;Helvetica&quot; at Wildwinds for some of it&#039;s attribution as I don&#039;t read Greek.&nbsp; 20 years ago I bought another spectacular medallion from Gorney of Caracalla.&nbsp; It&#039;s an AE 45 (large size) in full EXF, struck in 210 or 211 AD.&nbsp; However Caracalla is The Most Common medallion producer and medallions of him, while desirable in high grade are, not critically rare.&nbsp; Thus when I saw this one, issued during the latter 3rd century I thought to research it a bit and bid on it. It appeared earlier in Goldberg&#039;s but didn&#039;t sell.&nbsp; Also for some reason, while gold is out of the world, and silvers are very expensive, bronze Roman coins currently seem to be in the doghouse.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do also like early Roman as well as late but often am badly outbid on early stuff as it&#039;s very expensive.&nbsp; I bid over the estimate on a Julius Caesar but it ended up going for exactly 10x my already high bid.&nbsp; I did get a very common but apparently high grade CAST Aes Grave from a foreign auction (Artemide Aste, Italy) earlier this year.&nbsp; This is quite a large coin, weighing 258 g according to my postage scale.&nbsp; I have a few other earlier Roman pieces but they were acquired long ago.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH]215343.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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