Thread: The nicest ancient I have ever seen!

Originally Posted by ikandiggit

doh! Sorry.

Hello

This thread has actually had moderns and ancients.

Amanda

Originally Posted by areich

Hello

This thread has actually had moderns and ancients.

Amanda

Technically this thread was started to show the nicest ancients and some of us showed our favorites. Then someone said that ancients were trash compared to modern coins and started posting examples of what that person considered proof that modern coins are better. When a thread gets hijacked, it should just be put to rest but instead we (myself included) posted back and forth until we can't recall what the thread was in the first place. The question on whether Greek chariots or modern basketballs are finer art is not one we will solve here. I do wish folks would post a new thought on a new thread rather than diverting one started by someone else but I'm sure I've done this several times as well. Certainly ancient coins include some of the worst produced and most crude issues even conceived as well as the ones that the OP and the rest of us that like ancients admire so much. Perhaps we who like ancients would be better off posting how bad they are in the hope no one else will compete with us for our treasures? Collect what you like.

Hey - i was challenged before i posted anything.

Originally Posted by mrbrklyn

Hey - i was challenged before i posted anything.

Nobody ever said, "Hey, I wish someone would come in here and interrupt our conversation by posting a whole bunch of modern coins. I'm sure that would convince me they are better."

Originally Posted by Ardatirion

Nobody ever said, "Hey, I wish someone would come in here and interrupt our conversation by posting a whole bunch of modern coins. I'm sure that would convince me they are better."

BS - your WRONG. In fact, YOU started it.

Originally Posted by Ardatirion

We don't like your kind 'round here.

Which kind?

Originally Posted by randygeki

Do I see a challenge?

Yes

Originally Posted by mrbrklyn

ummm - no

You would do well to check the time stamps on these posts.

Yeah...and?

BTW - what do you think of this one?

that is a nice coin if you are into colorized coins (and yes, I know these are colorized at the mint) but I would never buy a colorized ancient....

Originally Posted by ziggy9

that is a nice coin if you are into colorized coins (and yes, I know these are colorized at the mint) but I would never buy a colorized ancient....

Well one of the bronzes I bought Friday were "colorized", a nice pretty green. Of course, it was not colorized by the mint, it was colorized by a rare reaction over 1800 years in the ground, but I will still take it.

I wonder how this would look after 1800 years. I am wagering not as pretty as a nicely toned roman bronze.....

Big difference between colorized and patina. I have actually seen an ancient that had been enameled, it wasn't pretty.

Originally Posted by ziggy9

that is a nice coin if you are into colorized coins (and yes, I know these are colorized at the mint) but I would never buy a colorized ancient....

The Manatee is not colored. That is the silver.

Originally Posted by medoraman

Well one of the bronzes I bought Friday were "colorized", a nice pretty green. Of course, it was not colorized by the mint, it was colorized by a rare reaction over 1800 years in the ground, but I will still take it.

I wonder how this would look after 1800 years. I am wagering not as pretty as a nicely toned roman bronze.....

That didn't stop Rembrandt from painting!

Originally Posted by mrbrklyn

Hey - i was challenged before i posted anything.

I think you've made that clear in many threads besides this one.