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Message:: [QUOTE="KIWITI, post: 3104028, member: 75018"]There is a weird story of a gold medallion of Valentinian I: "A letter from the Count du Chastel, dated June 2, 1896, referring to the famous Montagu Collection sold in 1896 gives us the very interesting information that this gold medallion had formerly belonged to the grandfather of the present Count du Chastel. The writer states that the medallion was stolen from his grandfather in his chéteau at the time of the occupation of Belgium by foreign troops in 1794. This unique medallion had disappeared from view, which was a great loss especially as it had never been published. Later on, it appeared in the English catalogue of the Montagu Collection, lot No. 914, and was acquired by the present Count du Chastel, with whose collection it passed into the National Collection of Brussels." He also claimed to have had it in his family DIRECTLY from the emperor himself. His genealogy can at least be traced to the 1300´s, but his coat of arms seems to have relation to the founding of a city (can´t remember the name), which was founded by Valentinian I. <a href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan97968/pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan97968/pdf" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan97968/pdf</a>[/QUOTE]