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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3284321, member: 19463&quot;]Since you failed to read the link provided, you missed the fact that there was Valerus Valens who was appointed Augustus by Licinius I during a period when he was fighting Constantine I.&nbsp; When they made peace, Valens was executed and it is thought that his coins were recalled (a very rare occurrence in Roman times) so a decent looking AE of his would be in the $10,000+ bracket.&nbsp; CNG has sold half a dozen genuine ones over the years including one in Triton X for $37,500 +fluff.&nbsp; There are many fakes not to mention disagreement as to which coins are good and which are bad.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would want to be very certain a late Roman bronze was good before I paid that kind of money.&nbsp; &nbsp; Very, very certain. </p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=97191" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=97191" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=97191</a></p><p><br /></p><p>My Licinius here is RIC 18 of Alexandria from that same issue.&nbsp; I paid $14.&nbsp; Valens was RIC 19.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have that one.&nbsp; A few obverse letters make this only a spacefiller for a coin I will never have.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]868392[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Valens you have was the brother of Valentinian I and fifty years later.&nbsp; His coins are extremely common but use the reverses of his day rather than this Jupiter.&nbsp; Why history has not called him Valens II is beyond me.&nbsp; Since Valens &#039;the Usurper&#039; was made Augustus by a legitimate Augustus (Licinius) it seems wrong to consider him a usurper.&nbsp; He was a general who did what his Augustus told him to do and was executed when Licinius Augustus was ordered by Constantine to get rid of him.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is a fine example of what comes from being loyal to the wrong ruler.&nbsp; It seems pretty obvious that being married to Constantine&#039;s half sister was the only reason Licinius survived that event which he later repeated when he named Martinian Augustus a few years later.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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