Late Roman Bronze Coins

Coin talk => Late Roman Bronze coins => Topic started by: Nikko on May 23, 2013, 06:58:21 AM

Title: Constantine I - VTILITAS PVBLICA
Post by: Nikko on May 23, 2013, 06:58:21 AM: An auction house from San Marino Republic is selling this extremely rare coin for 450â‚¬......
Title: Re: Constantine I - VTILITAS PVBLICA
Post by: Nikko on May 23, 2013, 07:03:46 AM: ....however, the seme auction house tried to sell a couple of years ago the same* coin for 1500â‚¬.

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okay, not really the same....
Title: Re: Constantine I - VTILITAS PVBLICA
Post by: Victor on May 23, 2013, 09:27:43 AM: I almost never bid on coins from auction houses because very often the starting price is too high, but the first coin is nice and will probably sell for more.
Title: Re: Constantine I - VTILITAS PVBLICA
Post by: Nikko on May 23, 2013, 10:09:13 AM: Quote from: Victor on May 23, 2013, 09:27:43 AM
I almost never bid on coins from auction houses because very often the starting price is too high, but the first coin is nice and will probably sell for more.

Victor, it's exactly the same coin after and before a really heay cleaning.
It looks also tooled.
Title: Re: Constantine I - VTILITAS PVBLICA
Post by: Victor on May 23, 2013, 12:01:54 PM: Quote from: Nikko on May 23, 2013, 10:09:13 AM
Victor, it's exactly the same coin after and before a really heay cleaning.
It looks also tooled.

Sorry, I didn't pay enough attention to where you said "same"

It does look like it has more detail now, but maybe it was thickly encrusted with patina, or as you said maybe some tooling.