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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Valued Member
 United Kingdom
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160 coins here, 90 more posted on previous post, total 250 coins :)
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Valued Member
Germany
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Nice lot !  Something rare there ? |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Very good lot, a lot of interesting stuff. And for £50...my god, theres a coin in there worth nearly that much. Pictures 5 and 6 show a very high grade Carausius with a good patina - those are worth a LOT of money. You'll want to leave that to the side until you are well versed with cleaning - they are worth so much because they are so rare in such conditions.
Also, it would help if we could get a better picture of the top left and bottom right coins from the same picture. The Victorinus too, 2nd from the left, 3rd row. If top left is what I think it is...then, well, your return on your investment will be considerable. Bt hey, could be a regular bog standard Julian II.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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nice mixture of coins. lots of reverse types including wolf and twins and victory on prow . looks like a Magnentius
centenionalis w Large Chi Rho on
reverse but not sure of the emperor. since I'm looking at it on my phone :(
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I reckon its Magnentius - I checked, its not Poemenius.
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 United States
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Looks like a very interesting lot especially some of the larger coins. There are some really nice coins there that should clean up well.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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They are making my blade hand itchy.......
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4981 Posts |
that's a fantastic lot!lots of nice details on those AE 3 and 4s for sure. you'll have tons of fun with those.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2596 Posts |
how do you plan on cleaning these?
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United Kingdom
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Could be wrong but the first coin could be Julian II, he had a couple of coins with a bull reverse. The second is a lovely Caraucius, be careful with that one. The third looks like Victorinus to me, the reverse is a bit of a puzzle.
Leave them in soak until you have had a bit of practice on the others.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
3626 Posts |
Third pic, last coin, that is a nice Claudius II Gothicus with eagle reverse.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
287 Posts |
Hi Pish,
I am under the impression that coin 1 is Carausius Legionary issue - Leg VII, to be precise
(I made that look like I IDed it :) but I didn't, The one I want to nickname 'professor Ben' ID'd it:)
The rest I agree with bar the third coin reverse, believed to be an error coin, which I think is quite interesting, I thought at first it was double bust struck, but now seeing the bigger pics, I agree that it appears struck through... with no reverse struck? I assume this kind of coin may have been 'chucked' by romans after the first strike?
Its definitely a keeper for me, maybe not worth anything, but its a interesting error coin in my eyes
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Something has occured to me...those are all remarkably similar in colour. Looks like the detectorist found a hoard, and with a legionary Carausius in it, thats something Archeologists like to know of. Perhaps more top grade Carausii are lying in wait.
Also, that last coin I'm not so sure of - the obverse looks like Carausius., while the reverse certainyl does appear to be an eagle. Perhaps I'm looking at it upside down and back to front. who knows. Any possibility of another picture of it, maybe slightly wetted, might bring out some more detail? No eagles are recorded for Carausius, so its likely not, but still, worth a look (Carausius initially issued coins based on coins already in circulation and these would have been common in change).
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wow, what an incredible uncleaned lot!
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Posted 04/02/2014 4:04 pm
