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Message:: [QUOTE="Eric Kondratieff, post: 2429191, member: 78618"]Not my very first, which was a Constantius II AE that my dad bought for my 10th birthday AGES ago... but this was among the first that I bought when I started collecting ancients in college. Got it from Frank Kovacs in Sept. 1986; it was part of a small hoard found in a well in Naples in the Summer of 1985 and published in NFA's fixed price list (with several Claudius and Caligula sestertii). It was a lot of money for a recent college grad ($100), but it was also a "two-fer", as it had Antonia Augusta on the obverse (a very sweet style portrait, I might add), and nicely detailed full length portrait of Claudius on the rev. as Pontifex Maximus. I sold it through CNG a few years back to finance a house purchase... sort of wish I still had it, but hope it's in good, appreciative hands now![/QUOTE]