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This thread is for attributable coins that you were able to acquire at a price under $5. This threshold is set intentionally low because nice ancients for these prices are hard to come by, and I want to see your collecting spoils! So, how frugal is the community? Who can produce the 'cheapest' coin in their collection?  Carinus Silvered Antoninianus. Ticinum mint. Obv: M AVR CARINVS NOB C, radiate draped and cuirassed bust right Rev: PRINCIPI IVVENTVT, prince standing left, holding globe and spear, captive at foot left. Mintmark TXXI. RIC 182, Cohen 97. Got this one for the low low price of $4.34. Let's see someone beat that!  |
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I don't know if this is cheating. It came in a lot which worked out at 0.57GBP Edit: Thats 95 cents   Diocletian Bronze 28mm 10.75g AE Follis Trier I TR IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI RIC 524a Rated Common (probably first officina of Trier mint) Edited by pishpash
02/24/2014 7:11 pm
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one buck each.. celtic durotriges bilon stater, 1st century bc  reverse pretty much bank. and.. indo-parthian sases about 85 ad Jammu (northwest india)   |
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Unfortunately most "Bargain Bins" at Coin Shops and Fairs here in London are full of Slugs. However this came to mind, for a Bargain. This came in a Lot I bought last year, until I took it to the British Museum's Coins & Medals Department for identification I had never known about this type: Coin: AE16
Ob: Laureate bust of Apollo facing to the right.
Rv: A Man-headed Bull, advancing to the left, ΙDΝΘI above.
Weight: 3.70 g, Dia: 16.2 x 17.8 x 2.3 mm
Mint: Irnum, Campania, circa 250-225 B.C.
Ref: SNG ANS, 274-275Because it is not technically Greek it is not in any Greek coin reference books, such as Sear or Seaby. It was sold with three others (they were "real Greek" AEs) for £7.40, so this alone was £1.85. I sold it for £40 to a very happy Italian buyer. Things like this happen, but this coin really does stick in my mind for its uniqueness, I would be very lucky to see another and for such a ridiculously low price again.   Edited by Masis
02/24/2014 8:22 pm
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It is an enjoyable challenge to buy poor condition ancient coins, for a correspondingly low price. Most of the fun comes with the effort needed to fully identify them.
If that happens, they are then worth at least double what you paid for them and sometimes, very considerably more than that!
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Because it is not technically Greek it is not in any Greek coin reference books but you give a reference of SNG ANS, which is a Greek reference book. SNG is the abbreviation for Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum |
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It is an enjoyable challenge to buy poor condition ancient coins, for a correspondingly low price. Most of the fun comes with the effort needed to fully identify them.
If that happens, they are then worth at least double what you paid for them and sometimes, very considerably more than that!~ Sel Quite, as I demonstrated. Quote:
but you give a reference of SNG ANS, which is a Greek reference book. SNG is the abbreviation for Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum~Victor Clark Because it is not technically Greek it is not in any Greek coin reference books, such as Sear or Seaby. You omitted that last part. If I was lucky to own a copy of " Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum" it would have saved me a trip to the British Museum's Coins & Medals Department for identification but I would have missed seeing the very interesting exhibition on Zoroastrianism including coins influenced by it. Ironically Sear has coins of Iberia, Gaul and beyond that had some interaction with the Greek world, but nothing for the Oscan tribes, from which the Irnum coin came from. Edited by Masis
02/25/2014 09:59 am
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Because it is not technically Greek it is not in any Greek coin reference books, such as Sear or Seaby both of those books are far from exhaustive, it would be impossible for that to happen. David Sear even says this about his book "Although not a complete type catalogue collectors should be able locate most coins" So just because a coin isn't in those two books, I would not say that it is not Greek. |
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David Sear even says this about his book "Although not a complete type catalogue collectors should be able locate most coins".
So just because a coin isn't in those two books, I would not say that it is not Greek.~ Victor Clark Well unfortunately, David Sear, I was not able to find a match for my Irnum coin in either of your books "Greek Coins And their Values" volumes 1 & 2. Luckily the experts at the British Museum's Coins & Medals Department were able to identify the coin in around ten minutes. The Oscans were not Greek, as neither were the Gauls or Parthians yet they appear in Sear's two volumes. Even when the coin in question imitated the Neapolitan types of the time. Anyhow, rather than this be another stereotypical rant that causes topics to be diverted from their subject, and "time being of the essence", I look forward to seeing other members post their "Bargain Coins". Edited by Masis
02/25/2014 10:32 am
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Okay in all honesty I am cheating ...... just a little. Last week I got an email that started out with the "Congratulations you won !" I won what ? I wasn't actively following anything and did not even remember having any bids outstanding !   Winning bid ? 4.50 ....... euros Outrageous shipping charge ? 1.20 eoros The joys of being an 'egg sucking' bottom feeder ? ...... priceless  |
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02/26/2014 09:36 am
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My Johannes came in a lot of coins, so by itself it would have been $4.85 shipped. Not bad imo for this very rare usurper: Johannes, Western Roman usurper (ruled 423-425 AD) AE4, Nummus Obv: DN IOHANN-ES PF AVG, pearl-diademed, draped bust right Rev: SALVS REI-PVBLICAE, Victory holding trophy and dragging captive, Chi-Rho to left RM in ex, Rome mint Ref: RIC X 1913  Edited by VisigothKing
02/28/2014 3:54 pm
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Nice for a Johannes!
Paul Bulgerin
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Looks a bit like Septimius Severus. What is the metal, can't tell from the pics.
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