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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2278834, member: 42773&quot;]I seem to be taking this collection seriously, so I figured I&#039;d dedicate a thread to it. I&#039;m not sure why I&#039;m taking it seriously, however - perhaps it reminds me of sticking Lincoln cents in a Whitman folder as a kid. It&#039;s basically all about the hunt. </p><p><br /></p><p>None of these issues are common - they all rate scarce to R5 in RIC, and my object is to find an example from each mint. Lugdunum, Aquileia, and Heraclea remain elusive, not because I haven&#039;t come across any examples, but the examples I have found were being offered by dealers that insisted that their rarity equated to exorbitant asking prices. (I don&#039;t the collection <i>that </i>seriously.)</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, here&#039;s the current status...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]455136[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Trier is about to be filled with this coin, which is on its way...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]455137[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>So what does one do while waiting impatiently for the other mints to appear at reasonable prices? Add a few varieties I suppose. I came across this one today, which gives me both of the officinae dedicated to minting these for Constans at Antioch, 5 (epsilon) and 7 (eta).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]455138[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The seller provides the following interesting information about its provenance...</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">Sold on behalf of the Royal Ontario Museum. Ex 1903/5 Ihnasyah Hoard. Each individual coin comes in an archival flip and has its own ticket containing museum inventory number and pedigree information. Prior to the opening of the Royal Ontario Museum in 1912, the first Director of Archaeology, Dr. C.T. Currelly, purchased in Egypt a large hoard, or portion of a hoard, of Constantinian bronze coins, which were to form the nucleus of the Museum&#039;s collections. Containing coins datable from the period immediately following the Battle of Chrysopolis in AD 324 all the way to AD 346, the hoard, discovered, in 1903 or shortly before its sale, was purchased in 1905 at Ihnasyah in the Fayyum. Examined by J.G. Milne, the hoard, along with Milne&#039;s analysis, was published in 1914 in the Journal International d&#039;Archeologie Numismatique. Totaling more than 6000 coins, the hoard included some coins from other periods, which made their way into the hoard at the time of the sale, since their patination is different from the rest of the hoard. In 1965, Frederick H. Armstrong published a revisiting of the hoard (Phoenix 19 [1965]), revising and amending the earlier work of Milne, and noting varieties missed in the earlier study prior to the publication of Late Roman Bronze Coinage.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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