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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4902257, member: 85693"]Interesting post - and an attractive coin with a great backstory. I suppose hoard evidence would be the ultimate provenance for something like this. </p><p><br /></p><p>By coincidence, to go from the interesting to the ridiculous, I just got in an eBay lot today and to my surprise, it came with a "King Arthur Period" coin - slabbed and "INB CERTIFIED" as well as "MUSEUM QUALITY" (whatever that means): </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1182828[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I have since broken it out of its slab - not permanently, since the slab was not in any way sealed, it popped open with my thumbnail. I'll put the coin back in so as to preserve its $$$$ value. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>From what I can tell - and I have about made myself blind staring at this tiny, wretched thing - is that it is a late Roman bronze of Theodosius I or II, Victory dragging a captive, c. 370s-390s A.D. </p><p><br /></p><p>But for sure, King Arthur or Merlin or Sir Galahad spent this on some ale down at Ye Olde Grogge Shoppe c. 500 A.D. This has to be true - the slab guarantees it, sort of! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1182827[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4902257, member: 85693"]Interesting post - and an attractive coin with a great backstory. I suppose hoard evidence would be the ultimate provenance for something like this. By coincidence, to go from the interesting to the ridiculous, I just got in an eBay lot today and to my surprise, it came with a "King Arthur Period" coin - slabbed and "INB CERTIFIED" as well as "MUSEUM QUALITY" (whatever that means): [ATTACH=full]1182828[/ATTACH] I have since broken it out of its slab - not permanently, since the slab was not in any way sealed, it popped open with my thumbnail. I'll put the coin back in so as to preserve its $$$$ value. :woot: From what I can tell - and I have about made myself blind staring at this tiny, wretched thing - is that it is a late Roman bronze of Theodosius I or II, Victory dragging a captive, c. 370s-390s A.D. But for sure, King Arthur or Merlin or Sir Galahad spent this on some ale down at Ye Olde Grogge Shoppe c. 500 A.D. This has to be true - the slab guarantees it, sort of! :jawdrop: [ATTACH=full]1182827[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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