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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8154485, member: 110226&quot;]That&#039;s a stunning aureus, Donna.&nbsp; You&#039;re right about the reverse.&nbsp; If you are going to have one coin of this type, try to locate one with an interesting reverse, something out of the ordinary.&nbsp; Your coin is very well struck and in a really nice state of preservation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is the reverse referring to Vespasian&#039;s victory in the East?</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have some Celtic coins with Lanz catalog provenance.&nbsp; Here&#039;s one of them:</p><p><br /></p><p>Celts in Eastern Europe AR Tetradrachm. Leierblume Type. Circa 3rd century BC. Celticised, laureate head right with torque-form ear / Stylised horse prancing to left; lyre-form flower above; wheel below, two conjoined semicircles before. Göbl, OTA pl. 18, 212/4 (rev. same die); Lanz 522 (this coin). 10.91g, 23mm, 2h.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good Very Fine. Very Rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the Hermann Lanz Collection; this coin published in M. Kostial, Kelten im Osten - Gold und Silber der Kelten in Mittel- und Osteuropa - Sammlung Lanz (Staatlichen Münzsammlung München, 1997);</p><p>This coin exhibited by the Staatlichen Münzsammlung München at the 1997 International Numismatic Congress in Berlin; at the Berliner Bank also in 1997; also exhibited at the Luitpoldblock Palmengarten, Munich in 2003 (exhibition #93[reverse]);</p><p>Ex Numismatik Lanz München, Auction 54, 12 November 1990, lot 28.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1422720[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My ancient with the oldest provenance, one that I purchased from Harlan Berk back in the early 1990s, goes back to the M&amp;M Auction, 1946, lot 664.&nbsp; The coin does not have that catalog accompanying it, unfortunately, unlike your aureus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Athens&nbsp; 520-480 BC</p><p>Tetradrachm</p><p>Seltman Group M (&quot;Attic Mint&quot;)</p><p>Obverse: Athena facing right, hair in lines ending with dots (style V).</p><p>Reverse: Facing owl, well proportioned, ethnic to right, olive on stalk between two leaves to left facing downwards.</p><p>17.52 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1422724[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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