Interesting Coins From 115 Coin Lot

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Ben Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 4208 Posts	Posted 03/28/2014 3:51 pm Plenty of interesting stuff in here, clearly not searched. Theres a whole load of larger coins and mid to low grade coins of common types (plenty of Julian II and Mag Max in there) which have gone into the unwanted pile (now 300 coins strong). Not the highest grade lot (except the Honorius) but plenty of interesting and identifiable coins. Heres a picture of the most interesting coins (to me, anyway): Licinius, R4, VO TIS XX, LICINI AVG around, very very rare type, never seen it before. Magnus Maximus Coin, broken and matching my Siliqua of him. Valentinian III, very rare emperor, often offered on ebay, though most offered are in fact Valentinian II or another later emperor. Mint State Honorius AE2 with excellent surfaces. Interesting Constantine II bust. A Jovian - I've been trying to get one for AGES. A highly trimmed Postumus Double Sestertius - only the face left. An Ostia Mint Constantine I - very short lived mint. Gallienus Zoo Series Boar, the second rarest of the Series (approx 0.35% of all zoo series coins). Carausius Pax AVG, wide flan. A Nice Campgate, dots in the top row. Barbarous late follis. Report this Post to the Staff

awallin01 Valued Member United Kingdom 477 Posts	Posted 03/28/2014 5:51 pm That's a nice lot there Ben, I especially like the top right coin and the second from the right on the bottom. Ben do you buy your ancients in bulk? If so what's a good price range to aim for say Â£/weight? Report this Post to the Staff
Ben Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 4208 Posts	Posted 03/28/2014 7:28 pm I try to. A lot of the interesting stuff doesn't look very nice so doesn't come to market - gets put into dusty boxes in drawers or straight up binned. To put it into perspective, I dont pay more than 50p per uncleaned coin. I usually try for 30-40p - only breaking that for a good lot. A lot of the time, I easily beat that. The 115 coin lot costed me Â£25, or 22p per coin. Theres a coin in there worth more than that. Usually the coins are smaller, too - large coins rarely make it to me. Sometimes I can secure a larger quantity of small lots from one seller - the best of these being several hundred coins for right about 20p each. A note - most large lots are searched. The recent ones have been through the detectorist and their family, a representative and then me. I know what I'm looking for but often theres some things missing from a lot - there was only 1 very poor Carausius in that several hundred coins lot - the rest had been taken out (Id expect maybe 3-5 in that amount as a minimum). But then again, thats the guy I got the unique Carausius from. You can never tell how the mind works of the seller. Report this Post to the Staff
awallin01 Valued Member United Kingdom 477 Posts	Posted 03/28/2014 8:11 pm I've just ordered 20 uncleaned ancient coins, to give my cleaning practice-as I've never cleaned ancient coins before. I did pay over the estimate given but would be about 50p per coin. I was looking at Crusty Romans, but I'm unsure about how much the coins have been gone through. And as you mention alot if not all the good ones get taken. They had a new silver Roman coin lot, but the price is quite high considering I don't know what I'm buying. And with there other lot's it's the same. I'm really considering buying a metal detector, I live not far from the old Mercia capital Tamworth. And also not far from where the Staffordshire hoard was found. I have many fields around me aswell, might serve me well-providing I get permission. Edit:If I do, I'll be sure to let you guys know and maybe help out with your collections? I love ancients, but need to get a collection going. I'll see how my cleaning goes, but I might consider detecting as a means to be the first contact with coins. Thank-you ever so much for the details/help, I very much appreciate it. By the sounds of it you must amass quite the amounts of ancients, home museum style :). My plans to have a miniature museum, plenty of coinage and artifacts/antiquities :D. Edited by awallin01 03/28/2014 8:13 pm Report this Post to the Staff
chrsmat71 Pillar of the Community United States 4981 Posts	Posted 03/29/2014 11:09 am a very nice looking gl. rom. there. Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5181 Posts	Posted 03/29/2014 12:00 pm It's all to the beholder, I suppose... I would never have considered Magnus Maximus as anything remotely resembling "common" Cool coins anyway! Report this Post to the Staff
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