What your budget buys 2500-10000 edition....

AV Solidus ND Treveri Mint struck 350-53AD mint state
Western Usurper Magnentius 350-53AD
From German auction 7500E

 

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man oh man oh man

 

Beautiful coin @panzerman

 

older photos....not the best!

AV Aureus ND Ticinum Mint R-4 struck 305AD FDC
Emperor Constantius I Chlorus
Won Tkalec Auction in 2005 for 9000 Swiss Francs

 

Amazing!

 

There's a lot of "bang for your buck" at this price range, with a wide range of coins falling into it. Here are a few of mine:



~$9K, Aureus 64-65, AV 7.27 g. NERO CAESAR – AVGVSTVS Laureate head r. Rev. IVPPITER – CVSTOS Jupiter seated l. on throne, holding thunderbolt and long sceptre. C 118. BMC 67. RIC 52. CBN 218. Calicó 412. Attractive blue-red toning, from the Boscoreale hoard. Extremely Fine. Ex. Golden Horn Collection


$6K - Stater circa 350, AR 11.43 g. Horse with loose bridle prancing l.; below, dog l. Rev. EPI K - ALL - IKRA - TEOS around square in which vine with four clusters of grapes; the whole within incuse square. SNG Copenhagen 603


$5K - Augustus (27 BC-AD 14), with Marcus Agrippa (died 12 BC). Æ dupondius (26mm, 13.56 gm, 12h). NGC MS★ 5/5 - 4/5, adjusted flan. Gaul, Nemausus, AD 10-14. IMP DIVI F P - P, adduced heads of Augustus (right) and Agrippa (left), Augustus laureate, Agrippa wearing rostral crown / COL - NEM, crocodile chained to palm tree, wreath with long ties in left field, two further palm branches below crocodile. RPC 525. RIC 159


$10K, SICILY, Syracuse. Timoleon and the Third Democracy. 344-317 BC. AV Hemidrachm – 30 Litrai (2.15 g, 9h). Struck circa 344-339/8 BC. Head of Zeus left, wearing laurel wreath; [ZEY]Σ EΛEY[ΘEPIOΣ] around / Pegasos flying left; ΣYP-A-K-OΣIΩN around, AP monogram before, three pellets below. Garraffo pl. 1, 8 (same rev. die); SNG ANS 493 corr. (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1440 (same dies); Rizzo pl. 58, 1 (same dies); Jameson 851 (same dies). EF.

Ex James Stack, Ex. James A. Ferrendelli Collection (Triton VII, 13 January 2004), lot 96; Numismatica Ars Classica 9 (16 April 1996), lot 233.


$6K - Obol (Silver, 0.79 g), c. 410-406 BC. Two eagles standing right on dead hare, the one in front with closed wings and its head thrown back screaming in triumph, the one behind with wings open and head turned down, tearing at its prey with its beak. Rev. Crab with between its claws; below, grouper (polyprium cernium) swimming to right. Basel 263 = SNG Lockett 519 (same dies). Rizzo pl. III, 6 (same dies). SNG Lloyd 829 (same dies).


~$10K - Kyrenaika, Kyrene AV Stater. Time of Ophellas, Ptolemaic governor, first reign, circa 322-313 BC. Polianthes, magistrate. Nike, driving fast quadriga right, holding kentron and reins; KυρANAIωN above / Zeus Ammon standing left, holding patera and lotus-tipped sceptre; thymiaterion to left, πOλIANθEYσ to right. Naville 84; Mørkholm, Cyrene, p. 151, no. 23; SNG Copenhagen 1210. 8.60g.
Ex Lanz 102 (2001), 346. Ex Lanz 80 (May 1997), 217
Ex. Adolph Hess AG & Bank Leu AG (04.07.1960) Lot 271


$6K - Hekte (2,63g). 550 - 500 v. Gr. Nl sitting on a tuna. Rs .: Windmill-shaped divided incusum. H. v. Fritze, Nomisma 58; Boston 1453 (Stater); Stanislawski 92

 

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Not ancient.

Or a coin.

 

Love those @AncientJoe ! Stunning!

 

I like Augustus / Agrippa Coin the most!!

 

I'm out due to budget in this range, but just look what you can get!! US collectors drop this kinda cash on widgets and I used to be of the mindset that widgets were cool - then I found ancients!

 

My only coin in this category.



...just kidding you guys.

Wow though to the above coins. I find it shocking that anything could look that good after 2000+ years in the ground. Those have to be either the best known or among the best known of thier type... just WOW!

 

Beautifull coins Ancient Joe! Thanks for posting them.

 

Here is another one of mine....
ex: Triton II bought for $7000
AV Aureus ND Rome Mint/ 7.45g. 21mm. struck 219AD
Elagalabus

 

Stunning coins in this thread--museum pieces all!

 

+1

 

+2

These and all the rest in the higher-up price brackets are a real treat to see!

 

Yep, great stuff. Maybe someday I can get just one like that. At the moment, I'm still working my way through the bag o romans.