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ROMAN EGYPT/Constantius I, as Caesar CE 293-296

Potin Tetradrachm; 20 mm, 7.44 g, 1h, Alexandria mint, Regnal Year 2= CE 293-294

Dattari (Savio) 6044

Emmett 4184.2

O: laur draped cuir bust r  ΦΛΑ ΚωCTANTIOC K

R:  Eirene stg facing hd to left holding branch and scepter LB in outer left field

 

Ex: Ken Dorney (unsold at Auction 14: lot 267, 31-01-2023)

Ex: Leu Numismatik Web Auction 16: Lot 2613 (22-05-2021)

Ex: Rhakotis Collection (Germany)

ROMANIA; Mihai (1921-2017) CE 1927-1930 & 1940-1947


Nickel clad steel, 100 Lei, 28 mm, 8.46 g, mintage 21,289,000

KM 64

O: hd r, MIHAI REGELE ROMANILOR

R: crown divides wreath with date and value 100 LEI/1944

edge: NIHIL SINE DEO


I had once known a college professor by the name of Jacques Vergotti (1915-1999) who had been an aide de camp to King Michael and used to talk about his time with the King and encountering people like Averell Harriman and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky among others. He was among those placed on a train to be exiled with the King in 1947 by the authorities in Bucharest. A biography of Vergotti appears in the Romanian version of Wikipedia:

 Jacques Vergotti - Wikipedia

His papers are at the Hoover Institution Library in CA and the bio found there reads: "Jacques M. Vergotti was born in 1915. A Major in the Romanian Army, he served as aide to Michael I, King of Romania, between 1941-1947. He witnessed the last year of the Romanian monarchy and the palace coup of December 30, 1947, when the King was overthrown and the Popular Republic of Romania was proclaimed. He was one of the few people allowed to leave the country together with the King, whose aide he was for one more year. He then emigrated to the US and has lived there since."

Mihai on l, Vergotti on r