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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24651576, member: 26430&quot;]That is a fantastic haul, well done! I can see several groups and individual coins in there justifying a $50 USD price tag. (The Commodus Sestertius alone, the other large RIC on their own -- especially with the Janus/Prow As -- or even the Byzantine Folles on their own, and, of course, the Tetradrachm.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Along the same lines, here are a couple nice rarities that I found in eBay group lots, c. 2000-2010, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Magnentius BEATITVDO PVBLICA AE3</b> (RIC VIII Aquileia 164; Vagi 3299; SRCV 18839). Quite rare. I only find a few in commerce, all in bad condition, having sold for few hundred dollars. (The cheapest one has actually reappeared now at Naville; previously <a href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/navillenumismatics/browse?a=2924&amp;l=3286401" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.biddr.com/auctions/navillenumismatics/browse?a=2924&amp;l=3286401" rel="nofollow">in their Auction 76</a> [130 GBP + 22%, under $200 USD].)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1569960[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Lucius Verus AE Assarion, from Augusta Traiana. </b>Not a valuable coin. (Conceivably $50 or more for the one right buyer.) At the time I found it, it was quite the rarity:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1569961[/ATTACH]</p><p>It was the only known photographed specimen (RPC &amp; <a href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/thrace/augusta_traiana/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/thrace/augusta_traiana/t.html" rel="nofollow">wildwinds &quot;plate coin&quot;</a>) until last year, when <i>Staatliche Münzkabinett Berlin</i> photographed theirs (previously it was&nbsp; only described in Schonert-Geiss &amp; Varbanov; RPC still shows the plaster cast, but <a href="https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1727" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1727" rel="nofollow">CN 1727 &amp; SMB now show the coin</a>). And now Chris Scarlioli discovered he has had one unattributed in his collection for a long time too! <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10348" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10348" rel="nofollow">Scarlioli&#039;s is now the</a> <font size="3"><b><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10348" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10348" rel="nofollow"><i>RPC</i> IV.1, 10348 (temporary)</a> </b></font><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10348" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/10348" rel="nofollow">&quot;digital plate coin&quot;</a> (mine is No. 2).</p><p><br /></p><p>I still have both of those above. The next one I sold when someone offered me hundreds of times what I paid for it. (Back in &#039;05, there may have <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=66451" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=66451" rel="nofollow">only ever been 1 public sale of this type</a> [$1200 + fees].) From an unattributed group or a bag of uncleaned -- either way, a nice surprise:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1569962[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>John V Paleologus (1341-1391) AE Follaro. (Sear 2515.)</b></p><p><br /></p><p>A few more have appeared at auction in the past 5-10 years, but in the 2000s this was quite a rarity -- and a big score for a crude little 1g coin![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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