Ancients: Post your recent barrel scrapings...

I don't know which looks like it was on the bottom. Your's or Anoob's.

 

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You're enjoying this, aren't you? You and your fancy-shmancy John Adams coins.

 

Jealous are we? It's not very becoming.

 

Actually, yes, I am a bit jealous of that one, but I'm glad it's in your hands

 

Thanks. I'm glad I spent the extra just for the bit of Americana.

 

I'll post another ratty Nabataean. I rather hoard these coins, and I don't post everything I collect. Nobody seems to want them, so they come pretty cheap. This one is actually in good shape - laureate bust of Aretas IV right, crossed cornucopias. This variation has a caduceus between the cornucopias, with the letter heth between and a circle below. Heth is Aretas' initial, and the circle is believed by some to be the mint mark of Petra.

 

Now that's a nice Nabataean.

 

i was hoping to snag a cheap nabatean in my recent bargain bin raid...but had no luck.

 

I thought this thread was scraps from the bottom of the bone barrel, some very nice coins here.


Here are a couple of mine...

The broken look...

The BD look..i'm going to let this one go and take pic's every couple month's..




Yes these are bottom feeders...

 

I shall keep up my frankness with JA. Here is a famous Zeus from the top of the barrel .. Charles

 

Eng, surely those were found underneath or tossed out of the barrel . Kudos!

 

This was free... Bella III of Hungary c. 1172 - 1196 AD

 

Hey ... Batman handed me this freebie as well ...

=> there's a gryphon in there somewhere!! (fouree, or not?)



=> "Free" is always a sweet deal, eh?

 

*double post*








*la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-dee-da-la-la*

 

You need to take some better pictures of that one. Yikes. Coin looks cool though.

 

*Judger*

 

well, this one was 20 bucks shipped.



Mauryan Empire
Ashoka The Great
272-232 BC
15x13mm
3.3g
Ujjain mint.
Gupta/Hardaker ISPC VII II B 23

i really like these little punch marked coins, lots of neat little symbols. here are they symbols on this coin..



left is obverse: 3 symbols;

"salt and pepa"


"crop circles"



and "cat over turkey with fish"



reverse shows crop circles, "hour glass" and "hurricane".

 

Chris I am really loving that punchmark. I need to get one of those with the three figures. You really have an eye for cool.

 

This thread hasn't been active since 2014, anyone has any new sub-$25 dollar coins since then?