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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Quant.Geek, post: 2638771, member: 74799&quot;]Awesome coin!&nbsp; Somehow I missed that one.&nbsp; Must have glanced over it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; I missed out on a few coins that I had my eye on today due to work.&nbsp; By the time I was free, it was towards the end of the Roman Imperial section <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; I did, however, manage to snag a couple of gems:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/cng/e/390/image00547.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Divus Constantius I. </b>Died AD 306. Æ Follis (27mm, 7.03 g, 6h). Londinium (London) mint. Struck under Constantine I, AD 307-310. Veiled, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / MEMORIA FELIX, lighted and garlanded altar; an eagle standing on either side; PLN. RIC VI 110 corr. (bust type); Cloke &amp; Toone 5.04.010. Near EF, dark green patina.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/cng/e/390/image00571.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Justinian I. </b>527-565. Æ Half Follis (26mm, 9.59 g, 6h). Nicomedia mint. Dated RY 16 (542/3). Helmeted and cuirassed bust facing, holding globus cruciger and shield; cross to right / Large K; staurogram above, date across field; NI. DOC (143); MIBE 116b; SB 203. Good VF, dark brown patina, some roughness.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/cng/e/390/image00596.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Michael II the Amorian, with Theophilus. </b>820-829. Æ Follis (29.5mm, 7.79 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 821-829. Crowned facing busts of Michael, wearing chlamys, and Theophilus, wearing loros; cross above / Large M; cross above, X/X/X to left, N/N/N to right, Ө below. DOC 9; SB 1642. VF, dark green surfaces, scratch on obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/cng/e/390/image00597.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Theophilus. </b>829-842. Æ Half Follis (22.5mm, 4.46 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 831-842. Half-length facing figure of Theophilus, wearing loros and tufa decorated with three pellets, holding labarum and globus cruciger / Legend in four lines within linear circle. DOC 16a.2; SB 1668. VF, dark green patina.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/cng/e/390/image00607.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Anonymous Folles. </b><i>temp.</i> Nicephorus III, circa 1078-1081. Æ Follis (23.5mm, 2.81 g, 6h). Class I. Constantinople mint. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator / Latin cross with central X, globus and two pellets at the end of each extremity; crescents to upper left and right, floral scroll to lower left and right. DOC I.1-64; SB 1889. Good VF, dark green patina, overstruck (likely on follis of Michael VII, SB 1878). Excellent portrait of Christ.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Ex Rauch 94 (9 April 2014), lot 1583.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/cng/e/390/image00639.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>ISLAMIC, Anatolia &amp; al-Jazira (Post-Seljuk). <i>Artuqids (Mardin)</i>. Najm al-Din Alpi. </b>AH 547-572 / AD 1152-1176. Æ Dirham (29mm, 11.75 g, 6h). Unlisted (Mardin[?]) mint. Undated issue. Diademed Seleukid-style bust right; <i>laqab</i> of Alpi across neck; c/m: Arabic inscription in incuse across face / Name and titles of Najm al-Din Alpi in three lines; genealogy in outer margins. Whelan Type I, 37-8; S&amp;S Type 27; Album 1827.2; ICV 1200. Good VF, hard earthen black-green patina.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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