Evaluation Needed For A Very Interesting Coin

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Emperor New Member Bulgaria 2 Posts	Posted 01/11/2008 08:47 am Hi guys, I have this coin of Hadrian. It is a silver denar. I need price evaluation for this coin since it seems to be extremely rare. I am posting photos of the coin as well as a scan from John Wilson's work on Roman silver coins. Sorry that it is in Cyrillic but I am sure you will get it form the coin inscriptions. Obverse: IMP. CAESAR. TRAIAN. HADRIANVS. AVG. Reverse: FORT. RED. P. M. TR. P. COS. II. This is the only coin in this category that has no price set in Wilson's catalog. Seems that there are only two sources mentioning about this coin - The British Museum Catalog and "Roman Imperial Coinage" by Mattingly & Sydenham. Thanks for your help! Edited by Emperor 01/11/2008 08:49 am Report this Post to the Staff

Vaslin Pillar of the Community United States 914 Posts	Posted 01/11/2008 3:34 pm Welcome to the Forums Emperor. There are quite a few excellent roman coin experts that are around, but unfortunately, I'm not one of them. Beautiful coin! Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 01/11/2008 4:42 pm Very nice coin, Ancients are hard to grade, if I were to grade this I'd say it's very fine and worth between $150-200. Report this Post to the Staff
Bacchus2 Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2891 Posts	Posted 01/11/2008 5:02 pm Though - of course you have already seen Mr Clay's response on Forvm - "Exactly your coin, valued at a low 2 francs by Cohen 745 and called "Common" by RIC 41, was among the MOST PROLIFIC denarii of Hadrian in the hoard with 91 specimens. Every other large hoard that ever comes to light can be counted on to provide multiple additional specimens of your coin." Grading has very little meaning in ancients as "strength of strike", "completeness of flan", "how central is the strike?" state of preservation, metal damage, conservation, smoothing etc, etc all contribute to a coins attractiveness. I have to admit that If I see an ancient coin graded I immediately think that it is overgraded simply to try and get a better price. Everything is sold now with a picture so grading is largely superfulous My Papal States coin collection: https://diadumenian.com/Papal%20Sta...0States.html Medieval coins collection: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...0Europe.html Indian Rupee Collection: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...0Rupees.html Minor world Silver: https://diadumenian.com/Congressofp...20coins.html Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16868 Posts	Posted 01/11/2008 8:04 pm It's listed in the Sear catalogue (millennium edition) as number 3493, valued at US$75 in VF. It's not the cheapest Hadrian denarius listed, but it's by no means rare. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
Lucky_13 Pillar of the Community United States 749 Posts	Posted 01/11/2008 8:10 pm Hello and Welcome to the forum Emperor! And..thank you for sharing your coin Report this Post to the Staff
Emperor New Member Bulgaria 2 Posts	Posted 01/12/2008 01:53 am Thanks mates. Report this Post to the Staff
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