FREE: Ancient Roman coin - Constantanius Spearing Enemy Horseman

This is very interesting ..:)

Awesome, dude, just awesome. LOL

its a pity your coin has worn over the decades, as i got a few like it as well from the mint when they were released and i've kept mine in excellent condition. maybe you left it in your pocket one night while feeding?! must have gotten a little messy. its too bad your leaving, as i would have loved to have 'chatted' some more! very nice of you to list this true beauty on here for listia. Lindsay =)

Do you have papers showing authenticity? I didn't read up on it sorry didn't have time right now but will tomorrow :) My husband would love it.

I do love the history of it. You show a passion for it.
Making it more desirable. Thank you for your comment ;)

Are yiu a real vampire or a Sears vampire? (borrowed lyrics from an old Zappa tune) lol. Great info. and even better auction!!! I'm watching and I fanned. pls fan back. : )::

ROTF LMAO

and now azvampyr is supposedly buried on an island on lake Snagov? I think I read about this in a book called "The Historian" By Elizabeth Kostova. Fascinating. I love the coin, btw.

Tonopah means place of water.

awesome auction, fanned you!
i have always had a fascination for history; especially ancient Rome and Greece.
is it free shipping to Canada?

SO COOL! fanned you fan back pleasee!!

oh, what a pretty coin.

...perhaps you've been in the sun too long azvampyre. : )

andycatangel..If I had known you had such an awesome ashtray (the coffin), I would have bid my entire empire of dirt.

LOL

azvampyre exacted revenge on the boyars who had tortured and murdered his brother by inviting the families of all involved to an Easter feast, then surrounding them and forcing them to march 50 miles to the site of his new fortress. There, those who had survived the grueling march were compelled to build his castle at Poenari, and those who survived that ordeal were impaled.

The estimated numbers of azvampyre's victims are staggering, ranging from 30,000 to more than 100,000.
azvampyre's harsh measures saw results. He helped make Wallachia a strong and independent state, developed commerce, reduced lawlessness, and strengthened the army. But all of it came at great pain and loss of human life. Fortunately for his innocent victims, azvampyre's second reign over Wallachia, while longer than the first, could not last.

At 17, azvampyre was able to seize control of Wallachia with the help of Turkish forces, but his reign was short-lived. Only two months later he was defeated by the man who'd had his father killed, Vladislav II. For the next eight years he plotted revenge, and in 1456 he at last succeeded in killing Vladislav and taking the Wallachian throne.

The six years that followed are difficult to assess. Most of the primary sources are biased accounts by his enemies, and may have been exaggerated, but even his admirers have to admit he was excessively cruel. He used the slow, excruciating death of impalement as a method of execution for everyone from military foes to local law-breakers, but he also used numerous other brutal forms of dealing out death, including flaying, boiling, roasting, strangling and burying his victims alive. He was said to consider the poor and the sick to be thieves, taking what was given them and not giving back, and he had beggars executed and the sick burned alive.

When azvampyre was five or so, his father became vovoide of Wallachia, and the family moved to the capital at Tirgoviste. There he received the education appropriate for a Christian nobleman. But after Sigismund's death, azvampyre's father had to walk a fine line between the ever-present threat of Turkish incursion and the ongoing instability among the Romanian boyars (aristocracy); as a result, he was eventually forced to hand over his two younger sons to Sultan Murad II in order to insure that he would not act against Turkish interests.

azvampyre was about 11 and his younger brother, Radu, was about 7 when they were taken hostage by the sultan. Although neither boy was apparently ever physically harmed, the experience was clearly psychologically damaging for azvampyre. The handsome young Radu became close friends with the future sultan, alienating the older boy, who may have been frustrated and even enraged by his father's and his own political impotence. His captivity ended after his father was assassinated by forces of Vladislav II of Wallachia. Upon his release he also learned that his elder brother, Mircea, had been tortured and murdered by the boyars of Tirgoviste. When azvampyre left the sultan, Radu chose to stay, which no doubt exacerbated the friction between the brothers.

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I should clear up, that tastes is ancient Latin roughly translating to brilliant. The exact translation would be "to have wisdom"; for those who misunderstood when I refered to Canadians as tastes...

Flavius Julius Constantius (August 7, 317 – November 3, 361), commonly known as Constantius II, was Roman Emperor from 337 to 361. The second son of Constantine I and Fausta, he ascended to the throne with his brothers Constantine II and Constans upon their father's death. In 340, Constantius' brothers fought over the western provinces of the empire. Constans defeated his brother and ruled the west for a decade until the usurper Magnentius rebelled in 350. Constans was promptly assassinated, leaving Constantius as the only surviving son of Constantine.

Great auction fanned you can you fan me back:)

I have a rare Byzantine Christian coin to list as well. c.1185AD as soon as I write up the history on it. The Byzantium area was also Roman, but further to the east, but also fell in the late 15th Century.

Yes, I know - you will throw in the Mortarium if bidding reaches the national deficit, which is now nearly 17 trillion according to msnbc. :). Good try, By the way I like this coin, so far never collected Romans, but Indo Greek sure, and I am bit modest archaeologist too.

Jaspersaini. As far as giving it away for free..I expect the winner to read the history of the coin I added in comments. That way I know someone learned a piece of valuable history before I go..that's what I'm getting out of it.
And if you had read my post before yours, you'll see I said I'll throw in the Mortarium if bidding reaches the national deficit, which is now nearly 17 trillion according to msnbc.

Hi! If you said its rarest and you have only one, why are you giving up? Just curious question, being a collector I can feel that if something is rare and one of kind in collection, its wise to keep - rather than to give for free. What's your saying?

If bidding gets higher than the national deficit, I'll throw in a 2nd century Roman Mortarium Veseel. Very rare hunters terracotta money bank.
There were no banks, so the Romans would put their money in a ceramic or terracotta pot and bury it. This one has dogs engraved as the hunters profession, the rarest one I have. The other is a winemakers Mortarium with grape vines.

Thanks requiscat. BTW, what's your blood type? You look delicious.

BTW, this coin has not been cleaned or zapped in chemicals. I've had it since it was minted, and it was my lucky coin during the great battle against the lycans in 666 AD.
But since all vampyres are being called home next month, I no longer have need for it.
It should bring luck to any human whom possesses it, so good fortune to ye that wins.

Death
Constantius immediately gathered his forces and set off west. However, by the time he reached Mopsuestia in Cilicia, it was clear that he was fatally ill and would not survive to face Julian. Apparently, realising his death was near, Constantius had himself baptised by Euzoius, the Semi-Arian bishop of Antioch, and then declared that Julian was his rightful successor. Constantius II died of fever on 3 November 361.