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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 4759273, member: 10613&quot;][ATTACH=full]1160995[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1160996[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine I</p><p>AD 316</p><p>22x23mm&nbsp;&nbsp; 5.1gm</p><p>CONSTANTINVS P F AVG; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust seen from the rear.</p><p>MARTI CON-SERVATORI; Mars, helmeted, stg. r. leaning on reversed spear, l. resting shield on ground; T/F across fields.</p><p>In ex. PTR</p><p>RIC VI Trier 864</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>ex- Elberling</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dr. Elberling (1797- 1873) had a very large collection of Roman coins with many rarities. He published ten articles about the rarest coins in his collection, and material from these articles was used in Henri Cohen&#039;s Roman Imperial catalogues - <b>Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l&#039;empire romain</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Dr. Elberling was a German army doctor who was born in 1797 in Silesia, and retired to Luxembourg.&nbsp; He began collecting coins in 1842, after his retirement, and he published ten articles on &quot;The most important Roman Coins in my Collection&quot; in a Luxembourg scientific journal, 1862-1874 (the last posthumous, and with an obituary, whence I derive these facts).&nbsp; He died in Dec. 1873, and his collection, comprising 775 gold coins, over 1000 Republican denarii, c. 2700 Roman imperial denarii, c. 5500 bronze coins, and c. 100 medallions in the various metals, was acquired by the Paris coin dealer Rollin &amp; Feuardent.&nbsp; He particularly sought rare and unpublished coins, and it was 547 coins of this sort that he published in his articles, with 24 plates of quite accurate line drawings.&nbsp; Cohen, and after Cohen&#039;s death Feuardent, of course drew on Elberling&#039;s ten articles when compiling the second edition of Cohen&#039;s famous Roman imperial catalogue.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>thanks to Curtis Clay for the above quote</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>next: a coin with Mars[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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