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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LaCointessa, post: 3288688, member: 87186&quot;]Responding to this post turned out more difficult than it first appeared it would be. First and last coin, right? Umm..not so fast.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t have a first single ancient coin because the first I purchased were part of a group from several eBay coin sellers. According to my eBay purchase history, those purchases were made on May 17, 2017. I returned one group of three coins to the seller who had them rather overpriced. This coin was in the second group of two ancient coins I purchased that same day.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]869498[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]869501[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Nicephorus II Phocas (963 – 969 A.D.)vÆ Follis, 25.4 mm, 6.76 g. Constantinople mint</p><p>Obv: + nICIFR bASILЄ RW, bearded bust of Nicephorus facing, wearing crown, pendilia &amp; loros, cruciform scepter in his right hand</p><p>Rev: + nICHF / ЄnΘЄW bA / SILЄVS RW / MAIWh, inscription in four lines overstruck</p><p><br /></p><p>There was that Nicephorus and this one below that I believed until tonight was a Diocletian with a really beefy eagle on the reverse; but, I do not recall trying to attribute it until this evening and when I tried, I had difficulties because I don&#039;t see it anywhere attributed. I found lots of similar ones or close matches but not this one. I&#039;m thinking it might not even BE Diocletian. Might it be Probus?&nbsp; Anyway, maybe someone will have a clue.&nbsp; And here is an old CT thread where there are many examples of similar coins but not the same one.</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-two-alexandrian-tets-yah-i-needed-a-fix.239896/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-two-alexandrian-tets-yah-i-needed-a-fix.239896/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-two-alexandrian-tets-yah-i-needed-a-fix.239896/</a></p><p>(and the ginger ale I was drinking almost came out my nose when, in this old thread I read JA asking TIF to show us all her tets!! lollzz.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]869555[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Now to my most recent coin.&nbsp; I am not sure. I was positive it was my Trajan, which I intended to have be the last coin I would add to my collection because it, along with the Septimius Severes (with Tyche) just filled me in such a way that I could not imagine obtaining another. But, now that I think more about it, I am almost sure that after [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER] held his great contest in which we had to match the coin owners to the coins posted, I was selected to receive a gorgeous coin which arrived in the mail.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am going to have to go back through the threads and see which was my actual last coin received. I&#039;ll do that over the next week or so. It&#039;s past my bedtime.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gosh, my coins need serious organizing. That is on my &#039;to do&#039; list. I think of [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] and her organization and many others CTers who have it all together and I realize I need to get more serious about things around here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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