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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 5366212, member: 15481&quot;]Congrats on your first auction win!</p><p>Buying at auctions is quite different from at a dealer. You often end up with your 3rd, 4th choice, and after the auction, I’m often like «ok, so let me see what I ended up with here». It’s often a bit more impulsive, the auction experience. I have often bought coins that I wasn’t aware I wanted. The last one of those was bought the other day, a wonderful pattern coin from Bayern. If I’m not mistaken, it has the strong portrait of [USER=82549]@gsimonel[/USER] on obverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1228303[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I also have a billon trachy from Alexius III that I have been questioning myself if I really needed for the last 15 years. Considering that it’s still in the collection, I apparently do. I don’t have pics of it though. So to excuse the modern above, I have to resort to another Byzantine coin that wasn’t on the buying list, but ended up on my invoice anyway, on the Papillon auction the weekend before Christmas:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1228309[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>CONSTANTINE VII PORPHYROGENITUS with ROMANUS I, STEPHEN and CONSTANTINE (913-959). Miliaresion. Constantinople.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: IҺSЧS XRISTЧS ҺICA / Rω - MA. Cross potent set upon three steps; in central medallion, crowned facing bust of Romanus; pelleted cross below.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: + ROMAҺO / COҺSTAҺT / STЄFAҺOS / CЄ COҺSTA / ЄҺ Xω Ь R. Legend in five lines; above and below, pelleted cross between dashes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reference: Sear 1755.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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