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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2253528, member: 72818&quot;]As the end of my current bidding spree was ending, I inexplicably lost out on two of my last entries at auction. The most surprising was a Follis of Hanniballianus in just about VF grade---without the scarcer legend break or the missing &#039;S&#039; in the exergue; due diligence suggested about $300.00 maximum at high retail and so it went until the closing minutes when it ZOOMED past a $500.00 hammer price.</p><p><br /></p><p>My frustrated and stubborn state of mind made me pull a &#039;Late Night Greg&#039; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and I placed two high &#039;wholesale&#039; offers to two well-known sellers on e-Bay, fully expecting to be rejected and counter-offered; one did and asked me &quot;to meet him in the middle&quot; and I accepted. Shockingly, the other offer came through a bit later ACCEPTING my low offer....and this one had the trendy CONS instead of CONSS in exergue and in a higher grade than the other I just paid for.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, now I wonder what everyone else thinks the average &#039;retail value&#039; for either of these coins is and I welcome any posts of the same scarce &#039;King&#039; and any &#039;River Gods&#039; you may have in your collections. I&#039;ll post the slightly more costly one first.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, Hanniballiannus was the nephew of Constantine I and was given the title of KING of Armenia, Pontus and Cappadocia, rather than the normal office of Caesar. He was murdered in the power struggle that ensued.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hanniballianus. Rex Regum, 335-337 AD</p><p>Bronze Ae-3, Ric VII 145, Constanople mint, 1,52 grams, 17 mm</p><p>FL HANNIBALLIANO REGI, bareheaded, draped and cuirassed bust right</p><p>SE CURITAS PVBLICA, Euphrates reclining right, leaning on scepter, urn at his side, urn behind. CONS in exergue</p><p><br /></p><p>The second is attributed the same, except for RIC 147 the CONSS in exergue and 1.25 grams, 15mm---- as well as listing the denomination&nbsp; Nummus instead of an AE-3 or a Follis, although, as far as I can tell, they are all the same &#039;animal&#039;..... or are they???</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]446165[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]446166[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]446167[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW: Discount the usual two or more bidders and &#039;Any Given Sunday&#039; kind of thing---since this explosion of higher bids has happened&nbsp; with this coin type many times over the last few months<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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