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helping out a friend here, sorry I have no pics yet, looks like a hammered coin, a little smaller than a penny and not perfectly round. its pretty well worn but you can just make out a square front sailed ship on the reverse and profile of a regal looking gladiator type or viking or something on the front.. he has that brush helmet thing on ? quite odd.. he found it and its in a huge airtite, looks to potentially very valuable unless its a repro.. any help is appreciated.. thanks Edited by Sap
06/07/2008 08:38 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Welcome to the forum, EricZ123.
A picture would help a lot. I don't want to guess at what coin you may have until I can see a pic.
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From that description, it could be almost anything... Greek, Roman, mediaeval hammered... definitely a case where a picture is worth an awful lot of words.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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yeah I understand, and I almost think this thing is going to be impossible to photograph because of the lack of relief.. any suggestions ?
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Bedrock of the Community
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ok pics are up.. please help identify and if you can give any rough valution that would be great .   |
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Ah. It's Roman. A "city commemorative". The obverse shows Roma, the protector-goddess of Rome. The reverse isn't a ship, it's the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, mythical founders of Rome (if you can't see it, turn it upside down). Beneath the line is the mintmark, though I can't make it out from the pics. Here are some examples of this type on Wildwinds. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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is it worthless monetarily ? or rare ? any value estimate ?
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They're fairly common, for a late Roman bronze coin. If you click on the links labelled "text" on the page I linked to above, you might see what some have sold for on ebay or other sale sites. For example, this one sold for US$12 in 2006, while this one sold for US$24.50 in 2006. I have one I paid AU$20 for back in 2002. Now, yours doesn't seem to be in particularly good condition, but it's probably still worth a dollar or two, minimum; identifiable ancient coins rarely sell for less than that. It may be worth more, if the mintmark is actually legible and it's a scarce one that can be fully attributed. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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