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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3104804, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;m sure there are thousands of lost stories we would love to have.&nbsp; One that lingers in the edges of &#039;lost&#039; is the Bavarian Collection sold by NFA in 1993.&nbsp; Numismatic Fine Arts was way to big an auction house to handle coins of the sort but the Bavarian Collection had a story far beyond the 3500 junky coins.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac16.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac16.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac16.html</a></p><p>Each coin was contained in a paper envelope handmade from scraps and described on tags enclosed which had also been recycled from old cardstock.&nbsp; The theory was proposed that the collection was formed by a German war veteran between 1890 and 1930 possibly from coins donated to him from charities; possibly while he was hospitalized from war injuries.&nbsp; I value the few coins I have which I got from Victor Failmezger more for the envelopes than for the coins.&nbsp; I would love to know the story.&nbsp; Victor wrote what he knew in an article for the Celator magazine.</p><p><br /></p><p>This envelope was crafted from a letter and retains a piece of the German postage stamp.</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/bava.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Constantius II AE2 Centenionalis from the Bavarian Collection (#2799)</p><p>Siscia mint, 3rd officina, Cohen 142 (3 francs value)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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