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Pillar of the Community
 United Kingdom
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I passed up that lot. Couldnt see a good coin to make it worth risking. I know 30p per coin is a price I can get for the worst of stuff - with that lot, the fees would destroy any profit.
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nice radiate bust bottom right Ben, where did these lots come from? ebay? |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I doubt I can do much with the radiate but it could sell for a couple of quid if I get lucky. The lot is from ebay. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Not got them to clean, they are for the school.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Oh yes - that is a good plan.
I had a plan to buy up some culls (as I once did) and then make a hoard. Put some nice ones on top, make a little display. Jazzy.
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PP what do the school do with them?
Ben, someone has had a crack at cleaning your lot already, but the key point is that the base metal looks ok on the radiate under the crud and BD (red stuff), so I would have thought you could buff it up a bit?
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Its certainly worth a try. But I dont have as much time on my hands right now and it may be worth more as an uncleaned coin than a low grade Aurelian. someone has had a whack at them, but in my experience, that doesn't rule out a nice find. People overlook some nice stuff. Carausius is the best to find in these.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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YOC I have a project on the go at the moment, I am donating a few coins to a local school, along with a bit of text for each coin. They are getting a handful of "change" as well. Thought it might be nice for the to see some uncleaned ones as well.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Great deal and pick up  . Anytime I find a good deal on ebay uk they won't ship to u.s.  Edited by dwayne8625
11/10/2013 7:20 pm
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Yep, Carausius fetches decent money even in poor grade, Allectus galley crops up too occasionally. I like the Gallic empire coins for a sort through.......often get a Qunintillus when the seller thinks its a Claudius Gothica and who knows, maybe one day a Proculus  PP , I take in Roman coins to schools which I work in all the time, ...otherwise they are restricted to handling packaged WRL rubbish. I take loads of classes out metal detecting on the school fields too as a freebie as they love digging up coins. Seeing their faces when they dig up a nice Victoria penny or a George III is great. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Ive had 2 allectus galleys and perhaps 10-12 Carausii come through. People just dont look out for it. A proculus would be veeery nice.
And thats some good stuff you do with schools. A guy once had us detect in our school's long jump pit...suspicious number of predecimal pennies and musket balls came out!
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Can't compete with that YOC! I doubt there is anything locally which would be worth MDing, even if I had one.
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PP found your new coin.....
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Nice lot...theres a counterstamped thing that might be greek or a Quadrans with a standing figure with 2 standards - theres an Augustus with a Lyon Altar (always wanted one...wasnt entirely sure, but I'm almost certain it is now) - a nice crusty one which I've thrown back and a low grade Magnentius from the same tribe as my other barbarous one.
The rest is low grade junk, looks like a hoard which has spilt into acidic mud. Ill pass them on. Theres an alright silvered gallienus int here which ill leave in too.
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Posted 11/10/2013 4:52 pm
