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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fugio1, post: 8071405, member: 89970&quot;]As a general rule, I try not to seek out bargains because they are usually bargains for a reason.&nbsp; Nevertheless, I find myself watching some auction lots knowing I won&#039;t even bid unless it stops rising at a &quot;bargain&quot; bid.&nbsp; I&#039;m rarely successful, but this year I won one coin that I regard as a significant bargain.&nbsp; I was totally floored to win this denarius of P. SICINIUS which hammered for 280 euros in a relatively high end sale this summer.&nbsp; The coin is Ex NAC 4A, Feb 27, 1991, lot 1661 (500 CHF.). The only real fault is the minor flan crack which I hardly noticed and was not even mentioned in the 1991 NAC sale listing. [ATTACH=full]1400226[/ATTACH]</p><p>Crawford 444/1a - Mint traveling with Pompey.&nbsp;&nbsp; Grueber provides quite a lot of information about the magistrates.&nbsp; Here is an excerpt: Early in 49, Sicinius was appointed a triumvir of the mint in Rome by the party of Pompey which was then in power.&nbsp; Who his colleagues may have been we do not know, as their names are not met with on the coinage of that time.&nbsp; On the arrival of Caesar, Sicinius left Rome, evidently in the company of C. Coponius, who was one of the praetors at the breaking out of the Civil war, and who, having espoused the side of Pompey, followed him into Greece, and had command of the Rhodian ships conjointly with C. Marcellus;&nbsp; For we find Sicinius during the same year issuing coins for Coponius in the East in his own name and that of C. Coponius (this issue).&nbsp; On those coins ... Sicinius still styles himself &quot;triumvir.&quot;</p><p>This coinage which was evidently intended for the use of the fleet commanded by Coponius in the East, is of very exceptional nature, for we have an ordinary moneyer&nbsp; of the Roman mint still using his official title and striking money for a praetor urbanus who had vacated his office.&nbsp; To justify this action, the formula S.C. (Senatus Consulto) is added, in order that it might appear as if the coins were struck under senatorial authority.&nbsp; This instance is quite unique in the whole series of military coinages of the Roman Republic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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