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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8329087, member: 118780&quot;]I must admit that I&#039;d hoped to show you something completely different. There were a number of coins I was interested in at an auction where I&#039;d never participated. To be honest, I&#039;d never been overly fond of the house due to a higher-than-average incidence of fakes, but these coins had a good provenance, so I trusted them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I swear I verified the auction start three times. I even searched for &quot;13 hours from now&quot; to verify it. The day of the auction I logged in two hours early just to make sure things were ready and I discovered...all of the coins I was interested in had been auctioned off. A number went for well below what I would have offered. They didn&#039;t even send an email that my place-holder bids were exceeded.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh well. IMHO this is the auction house&#039;s loss - not mine. My wife wouldn&#039;t have been pleased by the expense, so it was probably for the best. Of course, the auction house could have made more money by starting when they said they would.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, I&#039;m going to show something different than that something that was different. I bought these two coins at the same time as my first <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-first-sestertius.396061/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-first-sestertius.396061/">Sestertius</a>. Both are far from my core collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I rarely buy Roman coins, let alone late Roman, but even though there probably isn&#039;t any coin more common than this one, I felt I <i>had</i> to have an example. It&#039;s just too cool. Imagine these days how many people you&#039;d offend if you put the image of one guy killing another on a coin or bank note?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1476238[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ex Marc Breitsprecher</p><p><br /></p><p>This next one is <i>kind of</i> in my core collection. The theory is if I create a &quot;bridge&quot; between the time of Alexander the Great and the Roman times, I can then display both on my web site (or more important - I can buy more Roman coins). I have coins from Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II, so Ptolemy III was the next logical choice. Of course, there are a lot of coins to go with a pricy Cleopatra at the end, and I&#039;m not super-motivated to go after them so it&#039;ll probably be awhile. Still, I loved the portrait on this one, so I couldn&#039;t resist picking it up. The ancient Egyptians must have been very strong from lugging such chunky coins around.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1476239[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ex Marc Breitsprecher</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to show off your &quot;different&quot; stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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