About to snag a Nemausus Crocodile.

I just reserved this coin before someone else snags it for $29. I asked and the dealer agreed and so it will be next month when I get it. Not sure if you guys thinks it's a good price but I do, compared to the other coins that are on the market right now. First time I ever reserved a coin too.



Augustus and Agrippa
Gaul, Nemausus, 10-14 AD. Orichalcum As
IMP / DIVI F above and below heads of Agrippa to left, wearing rostral crown and Augustus to right
P - P to left and right. / COL - NEM to left and right of palm tree to which is chained crocodile, right
Commemorates conquest of Egypt

I've been looking for one of these for awhile and finally saw one for a decent price. I stopped my Roman Imperial quest for just a moment to snag it. We'll see if I end up getting it. More than likely, I will.

 

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It looks to be in decent shape and a good price to boot.

 

I saw this very same coin for sale not long ago. Glad someone here got it.

 

Well done! Plenty of detail on that coin and marvelous color!

 

I have not seen better for the price in recent days.

 

It would be better if there wasn't a pit on Augustus' neck. I hope the color is the same in hand, but often enough it is not. Still can't complain for the money and I do like it. This will be my fourth Roman Provincial coin. Later, I'm going to try looking for a catalog ID for it.

 

Cannot complain for the price on this popular issue. I cannot say Doug Smith has helped the price remain low, with his interesting writeup on the issue.

I see cng has one for anyone else interested inthese, (not as cheap though).

 

Gil awesome pick up, good on you, you keep this up you will become a bottom feeder soon...

 

I already am a bottom feeder. I have tons of low grade coins. But I like them all. True, some will receive upgrades in the future, perhaps. lol

 

Nice pickup, don't know much about the coin. But anytime you can get a wanted coin for a good price is a good day.

 

My recent posts on this coin and the page on them I have been writing mainly centers on one feature of the issue: They are a mess. Very few of them are without some fault that I consider major. You can say that these are just the way the things were made so we should overlook things like the pit on Augustus but the fact remains that we see coins selling for $29 and others for $1500 at the same time. This one has better than many detail on the body of the croc and a better than many portrait of Agrippa. It is not nicely surfaced, the croc's snout is off flan and Augustus is a mess. As it happens one of my coins (farthest right whole coin) has less detail on Agrippa and the croc body but corrects Gil's coins other faults. Of the coin types I have researched, this is the hardest to grade and be fair to all concerned.


I regret if anyone thinks my pages drive up prices. It is true that there would be less demand for these coins if no one knew they existed but that reduced demand also means there would be no incentive for them to be brought to market. If some of you would stop paying high prices for poor coins we might also slow the trend where dealers think that they can charge twice what a coin was worth last year and still find a buyer. There is a fine line between supply and demand. Everything we do nudges it a bit one way or the other.

 

nemausus was a retirement town for soldiers,the only place that they would have seen a crocodile would be egypt,so it is likely that they faught against anthony and cleopatra

 

If you search "nemausus" on VCoins you will find Gil's reserved coin and many others of this type including one right next to his for $1500. The expensive coin is nicer in all respects but far from perfect with adjustment scratches, blotchy patina and some roughness affecting the top of the obverse legend. Looking them over is an interesting exercise in comparative shopping. There are a couple I would not mind owning but have not convinced myself I need another imperfect specimen. I failed to find the CNG coin medoraman mentioned but acsearch as a million of them (slight exaggeration) if you like to compare coins. I wonder what grades (+strike and surface numbers) the slabbers would assign to these that would make them efficiently purchasable by the new collectors.

 

That is why the crocodile is chained to the palm. The coin is a tribute to General Agrippa and the men who served with him in the defeat of Cleopatra.

 

I was just kidding Doug, that was why there was a smiley face . It was actually a compliment to your articles.

 

Great lookin' coin, Gil-galad!!

Salute your new Flag

 

Nice coin at a decent price.

 

It is no joke and it hurts no one more than me. I get interested in something a bit obscure; I write a page on it that gets someone else interested in it; prices go up on that sort of thing making me search out another area of interest.

 

I became interested in these coins after your recent thread comparing four of them, but the only pieces I found that interested me were tad above my means.

 

I pointed this out in the ancient coin market thread, but noone commented on it. Oh well.