Worn but Different

Last week I purchased a lot of 43 ancient coins from my local coin shop. I bought them all for resale even though there were several I would have liked to keep. As it is, I kept only one while the rest will be put up for sale in the near future.

The one I decided to keep was not the most perfect coin in the lot, but rather a coin I have not seen posted.


MAXIMIANUS
AE Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, laureate head right
REVERSE: FELIX ADVENT AVGG N N, Africa standing facing, looking left, wearing elephant-skin headdress, holding standard and elephant's tusk, lion with captured bull at feet, H in right field, mintmark PKB
Struck at Carthage. AD 298
RIC VI 25b

 

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oh wow, that's a cool reverse bing...and carthage mint. win!

 

That is a nice coin even though it is worn. Not all that common either.

 

Nice one Bing!!! I haven't noticed one posted either---I suspect the Carthage mint is a bit scarce??? As well as the personification of Africa??

 

I would have bought that one. How do you plan to sell the 42? I have trouble with the concept of someone else wanting coins I don't so I am a poor salesman. I realize most people are in this for the money more than I am so I can buy coins someone else does not want. The opposite is harder.

 

I'm in the process of photographing the lot today. (Bing has consigned them to me.) I'll send a PM to all the regulars on this forum first, then post them in the Buy/Sell forum. Here's a teaser...

 

Trust me Doug, sending the coins to JA to image and sell was more than hard for me. The lot contained many I would have normally bought for myself.

 

don't be a coin tease!



why not keep some of the coins bing? were there none you didn't already have one of? or was this purely business and not pleasure so to speak?

 

Nice one Bing, and good luck on selling 'em. JA you better take some good pics...

 

To be honest, the wife agreed for me to spend a fairly large sum of money on the condition that I would be able to sell them all for at least what I paid and perhaps a profit. So now it's down to showing her I can do it. That is, all but this one coin. JA showed you the one Caracalla denarius I would have loved to have kept. And there are others you all will soon have a chance to see and buy before we list them on Ebay. Be patient. JA is working as fast as he can.

 

Nice keeper, Bing. I'd have loved to have it as a companion piece to my Maxentius.

Yours marks Maximian's triumphant return to Carthage after a brutal campaign against rebellious Berber tribes. The same reverse was used some years later by his son to proclaim himself as the protector of Africa, just shortly before losing it to Domitius Domitianus.


MAXENTIUS
AE Follis, 27.5mm, 10.27g
Carthage mint, 2nd officina, early 307 AD, RIC 57
O: IMP MAXENTIVS PF AVG, laureate head right.
R: CONSERVATOR AFRICAE SVAE, SE-F in field, Africa standing left, wearing elephant skin headdress and holding standard and elephant tusk, at feet to left a lion with captured bull, B in exergue.

 

oh, i see.

man, that denarius is nice, i'd hate to part with it a well. i hope you make some cash off the transaction, i hope you get to sink it into some new coins!

 

That's my plan.

 

This is the same reason my girlfriend doesn't mind me buying group lots. It is definitely hard to part with some of the coins especially when some of the ones you really want to keep are the ones that would help pay off the lot the easiest.

 

Curious to see the other coins. Hope they'll all sell swiftly!

 

Exactly.

 

Never seen the type before, cool addition JW

 

Please, please, please offer some for sale to the people on CoinTalk. You don't see many ancients for sale here.

 

They will be offered here first. That's the plan anyway.

 

Hey, JA, how does one get in line for your selling service? I used to shoot photos for a VCoin dealer who moved to another state and killed that golden egg laying goose. The writing up, promoting and pricing are what is beyond me.