Dave Welsh wrote:
"Dr Ewan Jackson" wrote in message
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Dear fellow collectors

I am on the verge of completing a collection of all the ancient Roman
coins of each and every emperors. I am down to my last 2 emperors.
Has anybody EVER seen a coin of the emperors Glycerius and Olybrius?
The alleged Glycerius on wildwinds.com is a gross misattribution of a
commonplace Honorius, and I have never seen either a Glycerius or an
Olybrius for sale - not in any of the major auction houses, let alone
on e-fake i mean eBay.
If anybody has any information about where or how I might obtain these,
I would be greatly appreciative.

If you have gotten your collection to that point, you are to be
congratulated. It must be extremely impressive. One wonders whether you have
included third century usurpers in your list of emperors, or only those who
struck at Imperial mints.

Well, I must admit I do not have Domitianus, an emperor they recently
discovered who ruled Britain only four days, and of whom there are only
2 known coins:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/o...re/3518621.stm

And I confess I don't have Dryantilla, wife of Regalianus, but she's an
empress not an emperor.

Other than that I have all the third century usurpers as far as I know.
Name one and I'll tell you what coin I have of him.

The coinage of these two emperors is extremely rare, but examples do appear
(at long intervals) in major auctions. To get examples of these emperors I
would suggest that you have at least $75,000 in the bank and regularly
monitor auctions announced on www.sixbid.com. It may take 10 years to get
them, but that's part of being a collector.

The money is not a problem. I am a completist and must have every
emperor.

A tremissis of Glycerius, quite a nice example actually, was sold by Ars
Classica for 37,000 CHF (approx. 28,693 U.S. Dollars) in auction no. 33,
April 6 2006, lot 631.

I must have missed that one.

Your opinion of eBay coincides with mine.

50% of the dealers on eBay should be in jail.

Ewan