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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 2720034, member: 44210&quot;]I also happen to have an old flip, for my Constantine VII:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]615844[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I assume the &quot;9-26-92&quot; is the date the words in pen were written (only months after I was born, actually). Would that have been a day that this was in an auction and sold, maybe?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the coin itself:</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Constantine VII</u>, Byzantine Empire</b></p><p>AE follis</p><p><b>Obv</b>: CONST bASIL ROM, bust facing, crowned, with short beard and wearing vertical loros, holding akakia and cross on globe</p><p><b>Rev</b>: +CONST-EN QEO bA-SILEVS R-OMEON, legend in four lines</p><p><b>Mint</b>: Constantinople</p><p><b>Date</b>: 913-959</p><p><b>Ref</b>: SB 1761 (overstruck on SB 1760)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/5-jpg.570752/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My bad for digressing with my Constantine VII. I don&#039;t have a Gordian to share unfortunately.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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