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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4691137, member: 85693&quot;]Ah Saturday night.&nbsp; I really like this thread.&nbsp; Things have been a bit slow in the eBay scrounging, so I dug up some old stuff I&#039;d never properly attributed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back in 2017 I bought this framed set with a Gordian III and a Tetricus I - it went for something like ten bucks.&nbsp; I had it at work for a while, but it was hard to see the coins, so I broke out the Gordie, which is a pretty decent Hercules type.&nbsp; The Tetricus has an unreadable reverse, so I left it in the frame:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153401[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153400[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Gordian III&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Antoninianus</b></p><p><b>(241-243 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint (9th, 10th and <b>11th Issues, 4th Officina)</b></b></p><p>IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG, radiate draped bust right / VIRTVTI AVGVSTI, Hercules standing right leaning on club set on rock.</p><p>RIC 95; Cohen 404.</p><p>(4.92 grams / 22 mm)<b> </b></p><p><b>Provenance Note: </b>Broken out of a Worldwide Treasure Bureau &quot;Genuine Roman Silver &amp; Bronze Coins&quot;&nbsp; framed set (with a Tetricus Antoninianus).&nbsp; Certificate of Authenticity signed by Samuel E. Cox, President.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a uniface weissfennig from Bohemia I got sometime in the 1990s, I forget where.&nbsp; Looking it over, I was rather impressed by the medieval lettering -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153399[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Bohemia&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; n.d. Weisspfennig </b></p><p><b>Vladislaus II (1471-1516)</b></p><p>WLADISLAUS SECUNDUS around double-tailed Bohemian lion rampant / blank (uniface)</p><p>Sauma 185.</p><p>(0.48 grams / 15 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>From my local dealer&#039;s junk drawer a while back, a bent and very worn silver piece from St. Gall in Switzerland - I liked the bear.&nbsp; As it turns out, it is the &quot;key date&quot; to the series - not that the date is very visible, but 1734 is the only one ending in 4.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153403[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Switzerland St. Gall</b></p><p><b>1734</b></p><p><b>6 Kreuzer </b></p><p>MON:NOVA:S:GALL[ENSI]S around rampant bear left / VI [K]REU-[Z]ER [17]34 within wreath</p><p>KM 89; HMZ 2-906 (key date)</p><p>(2.77 grams / 24 mm)</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>&nbsp;</b></p><p>Finally, a really cheap Roman Republican denarius I found on eBay.&nbsp; It has that kind of toning you get when silver&#039;s been in a paper envelope for a long time.&nbsp; Or it&#039;s a fake.&nbsp; I&#039;m not 100% on this one, though weight and diameter seems okay (a rather broad-flan issue).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1153402[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Roman Republic&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Denarius </b></font></p><p><b>C. Licinius Lf Macer </b></p><p><b>(84 B.C.) Rome Mint </b></p><p>Diademed bust of Vejovis left (Crawford says Apollo), from behind, hurling thunderbolt / Minerva in quadriga right with javelin &amp; shield; C LICINIVS•L•[F] MACER in two lines in ex.</p><p>Crawford 354/1; Licinia 16.</p><p>(3.73 grams / 21 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>And so that&#039;s the stuff I&#039;m fiddling around with this Saturday night.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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