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<p>[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 6055294, member: 109923"]I agree that learning about them and looking for them can be more enjoyable than owning them. It's the 'thrill of the chase'. Bidding on them can be an exciting pastime, even if you have to pull away at the last minute after a month of admiring them. But like any relationship, once you're committed to them, you have to work harder at it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have a couple of Constantius I, although not an argenteus:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Constantius I as Caesar, 300</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1244622[/ATTACH]</b></p><p><b>London. Bronze, 28mm, 9.29g. FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB C. GENIO POPVLI ROMANI (RIC VI 14a).</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><b>Constantius I as Augustus, 305-306</b></b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1244626[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><b>London. Bronze, 27mm, 9.5g. IMP CONSTANTIVS P F AVG. GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI (RIC VI 52a).</b></b></p><p><br /></p><p>This second is from the Falmouth Hoard, found on 18 April 1865 by labourers named Tripp and Tallack. They were ploughing a field on Pennance Farm near Falmouth, Cornwall, England when they discovered 600-1000 Roman bronze coins (3-4th centuries AD) surrounded by black material that crumbled in their hands.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins, including 110 of Constantius, were exhibited at the Polytechnic Exhibition in 1867. A small parcel from the hoard was owned by Lord Stewartby (MP), who studied the find. Christie's sold 584 of the coins in 1970, ‘The Property of Mrs Janet M.K. Fox of Falmouth’...‘all in a rather corroded state’ and ‘said to have been stacked in neat rows.’ This coin came in a Baldwin's paper envelope with annotations made by Lord Stewartby.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 6055294, member: 109923"]I agree that learning about them and looking for them can be more enjoyable than owning them. It's the 'thrill of the chase'. Bidding on them can be an exciting pastime, even if you have to pull away at the last minute after a month of admiring them. But like any relationship, once you're committed to them, you have to work harder at it ;) I have a couple of Constantius I, although not an argenteus: [B]Constantius I as Caesar, 300 [ATTACH=full]1244622[/ATTACH] London. Bronze, 28mm, 9.29g. FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB C. GENIO POPVLI ROMANI (RIC VI 14a). [B]Constantius I as Augustus, 305-306[/B][/B] [ATTACH=full]1244626[/ATTACH] [B][B]London. Bronze, 27mm, 9.5g. IMP CONSTANTIVS P F AVG. GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI (RIC VI 52a).[/B][/B] This second is from the Falmouth Hoard, found on 18 April 1865 by labourers named Tripp and Tallack. They were ploughing a field on Pennance Farm near Falmouth, Cornwall, England when they discovered 600-1000 Roman bronze coins (3-4th centuries AD) surrounded by black material that crumbled in their hands. The coins, including 110 of Constantius, were exhibited at the Polytechnic Exhibition in 1867. A small parcel from the hoard was owned by Lord Stewartby (MP), who studied the find. Christie's sold 584 of the coins in 1970, ‘The Property of Mrs Janet M.K. Fox of Falmouth’...‘all in a rather corroded state’ and ‘said to have been stacked in neat rows.’ This coin came in a Baldwin's paper envelope with annotations made by Lord Stewartby.[/QUOTE]
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