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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
3626 Posts |
Landed on the doormat this morning: A fair bit of silvering remains.19mm 2.87g better in the hand, I love the reverse   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3446 Posts |
Very nice coin ! After all these many years I never acquired one yet.
A difficult emperor to fill for a reasonable price.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
5155 Posts |
Cant go wrong with that, eh.
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Valued Member
United States
152 Posts |
Quintillus indeed is scarcer but one time call it 6 years ago Bill Kalmbach (Nilus) had a tremendous high grade one. I think it sold for 800$ which was about double what I thought it should be priced at.
A similar coin might be that of Allectus. You can find coins of him in F or maybe VF fairly regularly. Now think back about how many times you have ever seen an XF one. Very very very hard to locate.
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Moderator
 United States
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Very nice coin of one of the harder emperors to get. I like that it still has some silvering on it.
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
3098 Posts |
That's very nice for a Quintillus. The reverses tend to be crud. I love the curls of his hair.
Paul Bulgerin
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Pillar of the Community
Netherlands
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 Nice find! |
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Pillar of the Community
 United Kingdom
3626 Posts |
Thank you all for the lovely comments. This is my other quintillus, not sure whether to keep him or not. I hate parting with coins.   I have one Allectus Galley, it is flaking away to nothing. They are so expensive in good condition. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Nice Quintillus. Odd that the reverse is so much better than the obverse. I've got one Quintillus with silvering, top center of this group:   If only I had the money with me at the time, I wouldve cleared the guy out - all those coins are from the same hoard, and he had perhaps a thousand or so there. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
3626 Posts |
That's a nice one Ben. Another good reverse. You can see the family resemblence can't you.
Edited by pishpash
09/01/2014 5:21 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Here is my Quintillus. I don't know a lot about it yet.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
3626 Posts |
Looks a lot like this one TC:
Quintillus, AE antoninianus, Siscia mint.
IMP CM AVR CL QVINTILLVS AVG, radiate, cuirassed bust right.
TEMPORVM FELI, Felicitas standing left, holding caduceus
and cornucopiae.
RIC V-1 Siscia 76 var (unlisted bust type).
Rare.
Look on wildwinds for the reference and compare....
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Pillar of the Community
1121 Posts |
P.P. You're up late. Thanks. I will go see.
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Pillar of the Community
1121 Posts |
Having gone through all of the Quintillus listings on Wildwinds, I have to agree with you - the RIC V-1 Siscia 76 var (unlisted bust type) seems to be the closest. Marvellous. Thank-you.
(P.S. - Any idea on value?)
Edited by Topcat7
09/02/2014 7:35 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
3626 Posts |
TC not been able to find one sold.
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Pillar of the Community
1121 Posts |
Thank-you PP.
When it arrives I may put it up for grading. It seems to have clear definition.
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