London Coin Fair Roll Call

PlanoSteve · Feb 4, 2018

TypeCoin971793 said: ↑

The trip has been off to a rocky start. I missed my train from Paris to London (several factors involved, including me not paying attention and the Paris train stations being very poorly laid out), so I had to pay a $50 fee to get bumped to the next train. I messed up the conversion rate in my head, so the hotel was about $40 more than expected. Less coin money (not that I had that much to begin with :/), but I made it, and I am safe.

The time I spent in Paris was not that pleasant. I might not go back...
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Lived in Germany for 3 yrs in the 1970's. Germany was great, but favorite city - Rome! Least favorite & would not go back - Paris!

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Cheech9712 · Feb 4, 2018

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I have fond memories of that fair. Its where I met Basil Demetriadi in person for the first time (though we had corresponded for some years). I still have these two coins that I purchased there:

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Britain, The Iceni, 65 – 1 BC
Silver Unit, 13mm, 1.25 grams
Obverse: Celticized head right, two trefoils before, triple pellets below.
Reverse: Horse rearing right, pellet below tail, wheel above, lozenge shaped box below.

Cost:
£15

References:
Van Arsdell 794 // ABC 2567 // SCBC 434

Provenance:
Purchased at the London Coin Fair, mid 1990’s.

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Philip I, 244 – 249 AD
Æ 8 Assaria, Syria, Seleucis & Pieria, Antioch Mint, 30mm, 15.45 grams

Obverse: AVTOK K M IOVA FILIPPOC CEB, Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip left.
Reverse: ANTIOXENWN MHTPO KOLW, Veiled and turreted bust of Tyche left, above a ram leaping left, star below, A E S C in fields, all in retrograde.

References:
McAlee 955c (this coin)

Cost:
£15

Provenance:
Kenneth W. Dorney List 45, October 1998.
London Coin Fair, mid 1990’s.

Notes:
Retrograde reverse. One of two(?) known examples.
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Whats up with phillip 1 head on reverse. There has to be a cool story behind it !!! Is it a fence?

TypeCoin971793 · Feb 4, 2018

PlanoSteve said: ↑

Lived in Germany for 3 yrs in the 1970's. Germany was great, but favorite city - Rome! Least favorite & would not go back - Paris!
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I’ve spent all of 10 minutes in Paris proper. That was enough to turn me off.

TypeCoin971793 · Feb 5, 2018

Ken Dorney said: ↑

Its one of the finest museums in the world, and its free....just enjoy what you can!

BTW, in the 'old days' the gift shop still sold some of the reference books for coins. You might check those out if they still sell them.
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I did not see any coin reference books.

But I got some miscellaneous inexpensive history books that looked interesting.

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