Ever Forget You Had a Coin?

I have often done it unintentionally - I posted these recently on another thread - bought from the same dealer about 18 months apart:
Faustina I sestertius RIC 1105 (A. Pius)
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Not the same dies, but very similar style and condition - nice to have one to show for each side anyway.

I started my web list of what coins I had to try to stop this happening.

ATB,
Aidan.

 

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@ancient coin hunter I am working on a coin right now that looks very much like the one you posted above. I haven't got it quite ready for final declaration. The MM on mine is SMN Gamma. Could you take a look for me?

 

Looks quite similar to the coin I posted. Though I can't make out the mintmark on my example. Clearly both have Jove with two captives on the reverse.

 

..hehe...i reckon its good to have so many coins one forgets those minute details of who and what ...

 

Good to see other collectors accumulating duplicates - sometimes I feel a bit guilty about it, because I have a lot of duplicates. With ancients, there are so many variables, and my stuff is so low grade, that it takes two or four coins to make up one complete one for me! So I tell myself...

Here is a countermark duplicate I recently got. It is a lyre countermarked on a Apollo/goat AE from Aeolis, Aigai. I couldn't tell if it was countermarked when I bought it (I liked the goat), but was thrilled to find it was. Furthermore, I had forgotten I'd already had one of these.

The new one is the over-cleaned shiny one (right). The one I already had (left) has a green patina and a bolder countermark (and possibly a second one too). But my new over-cleaned one has a better goat ("better" being a relative term here). For reasons I won't attempt to justify, I rather line the big flan crack across the nose too:



Aigai, Aeolis Æ 16
(2nd-1st Century B.C.)
Laureate head of Apollo right /
A[IΓAEΩN], goat standing right.
Sear 4168; BMC 17.96, 10-11;
SNG von Aulock 1596
(3.86 grams / 16 mm)
Countermarks: Lyre in 5 mm circle & unknown (head?) in 4 mm circle, both obverse. (No attribution for CMs found.)

Aigai, Aeolis Æ 16
(2nd-1st Century B.C.)
Laureate head of Apollo right / [AIΓEΩN], goat standing right.
Sear 4168; BMC 17.96, 10-11;
SNG von Aulock 1596
(3.74 grams / 16 mm)
Countermark: Lyre in 5 x 4 mm oval, obverse. (No attribution for CM found.)

I didn't have much luck finding much information about the countermark on these - the lyre turns up fairly often. If anybody has information, please share!

 

@ancient coin hunter I just got some information about the coin I posted here that looks a lot like yours. It does because it is. A friend just sent me the following regarding my posted coin:

Licinius I, AE silvered follis, Nicomedia, AD 321-324.

IMP C VAL LICIN LICINIVS PF AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right.

IOVI CONSERVATORI, Jupiter standing left, chlamys across left shoulder, holding Victory on globe and eagle-tipped sceptre, eagle with wreath at foot left, captive to right.

X over II Mu in right field. Mintmark SMN gamma RIC VII Nicomedia 44; Sear 15223.

Rated R2.

 

Thanks for the Information!

 

I've forgotten coins. Very recently, I consigned most of my Roman Imperials for auction as they have not been my focus for many years. I soon realized that I'd forgotten a few, including this handsome Marius which I never got around to breaking-out of its slab. The slab kept the coin out of my trays from which the consignment was assembled. Was it fate??

 

Nice Marius @Carausius