Do you have a coin you, for different reasons, think is ugly, but still are proud of? I like this norwegian silver 2 kroner coin from 1913. I think the damage gives it character
This one's kinda pretty, only not so much...I can't decide. I got it many years ago for just a couple o' bucks.
Someone showed me a reference recently; it's a Kishangarh Copper Paisa, from the early 1800's. I haven't researched it any further than that.
Here's a well-worn coin but it's one of my favorites because it was issued as a last-ditch effort to raise support for the ill-fated Louis XVI of France-- a truly historical piece.
Constantius II AR siliqua – 18mm Lugdunum, 360-361 AD DN CONSTANTIVS PF AVG pearl-diademed, draped & cuirassed bust right VOTIS/XXX/MVLTIS/XXXX within wreath LVG in ex. RIC VIII Lyons 216 Nero, AD 54-68 AE - As 23 mm 64 AD radiate head right NERO CLAVG CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP P P Genius standing half-left, sacrificing from patera over lighted altar & holding cornucopiae GENIO AVGVSTI S-C, I in ex RIC I 215
Mn. Cordius Rufus, 46 BC Denarius Obverse: RVFVS S.C., Crested Corinthian helmet, owl on helm Reverse: MN CORDIVS, Aegis of Minerva with head of Medusa at center Reference: Cr463/3; Syd 977 Grade: aF Off centered and oddly struck, bank marks. stainless
Well, they would have to be these two. Found by my son last week, but unfortunately in terrible shape. The sestertius is beyond recognition, and the denarius is worn and corroded (but recognizable as a Tiberius Tribute penny - Livia seated?). I am proud of them (and of my son!) because he found them with his cheap detector, and i failed to detect them in spite of walking over them with my very fancy machine. Eduard
I cannot post a pic yet but my first metal detector find was a ugly 1736 Dutch East Indies coin found in a field just a few steps away from an old soft clay mining operation in the Village of Clayton ( my home town) in the Township of New Marlborough. I'm still proud of that coin as I have often wondered who might have lost ot and how they acquired it.
heres another ancient Hadrian AE As. 125-128 AD. HADRIANVS AVGVSTVS, laureate head right / SALVS AVGVSTI S-C, COS III below, Salus standing left holding patera, feeding serpent arising from altar. RIC 678, Cohen 1357, BMC 1349.
An unlisted Tiberius Sestertius from Lyons Tiberius, Sestertius, Lugdunum mint about 12-14 AD Av.: [TI CAESAR AVGV]STI F IMPERATOR VII , laureate head of Tiberius r. Rv: ROM ET AVG , front elevation of the Roma-Augustus-Altar of Lugdunum, decorated with the corona civica between laurels, flanked by nude male figures; to left and right, Victories on columns, facing one another. , above: square countermark: IMP (lig.) unlisted, RIC: comp. 248a , but obv. legend: AVGVSTI ; C 35 ; for countermark: Chantraine, Novaesium comp. 1902/ -03 (countermark no. 16) The reverse of this coin features the celebrated Altar of Lugdunum which had been dedicated by Augustus on August 1st, 10 BC. regards
