Desert patinas...........

JUSTINIAN I AE Follis
OBVERSE: DN IVSTINIANVS PP AVG, pearl diademed, draped, cuirassed bust right
REVERSE: Large M, star to left, cross above, star right, officina letter below, mintmark CON
Struck at Constantinople, 527-65 AD
10g, 28mm
SB 160

 

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Some truly beautiful coins ....... wow everyone! I think the desert patina really gets my vote ....... thanks for sharing them.

 

I'm spent!!

 

Ummm, does this baby count?
=> Anonymous RR AE AS

 

here's my best desert patina coin, a licinius ii

 

Pale, sandy patina...


AUGUSTUS, AE18 of MYSIA, Pergamon
Augustus in tetrastyle temple / Demos of Pergamon crowning Proconsul M. Plautius Silvanus for some unknown reason.

 

Classic bright orangey desert patina...



LICINIUS I, Follis, Nicomedia mint.

 

Just posted this one recently on its own thread, but it's appropriate here too.



HANNIBALLIANUS as Rex Regum, AE4, Constantinople mint.

 

Z very nice coins...

I have a little Gallienus action...Sorry don't have my notes, getting ready for my coin show...

 

Dolphin in a desert...



CLAUDIUS II GOTHICUS, Antoninianus, Antioch mint.

 

Numerian Antioch



Obv. IMP C M AVR NVMERIANVS NOB C, Radiate and draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev. VIRTVS AVGGG, Numerian st. right, holding scepter and receiving Victory on Globe from Carus st. left, holding long scepter

Ex. * Є /XXI
20mm, 4.1gr, Die 180
2nd emission Feb.283

 

Desert is my favorite patina! Not sure why I haven't bought more of them.

I love all of the fabulous examples posted in this thread-- even coin types I don't collect and normally wouldn't look at twice

Astarte & Trajan/bull from Aradus, Phoenicia


A selectively restruck provincial of Germanicus & Drusus, from Sardes, Lydia


Ptolemy II with elephant skin headdress


Syrian provincial under Nero, Tyche/ram


"issued under pharoah Nektanebo II", although most likely some other Syrian type

 

Sweet, TIF => those are fantastic desert-patina-additions (some great animals coins ... plus, I love that Germanicus & Drusus restruck baby => I had that one, or a similar example lined-up in one of the auctions, but due to spreading myself thinnly on a bunch of other coins, I was outbid ... curious, is that coin from an auction?)

 

Yes, it's one of my earliest auction purchases. From Pecunem 5 in July 2013. I saw another nice one recently, perhaps a bit better than this one... considered bidding but I didn't want to be a hog Bet it was the one you are speaking of.

 

=> super-cool with the ring (legends) restruck around the coin ... definitely still on my wish-list

 

Steve, is this the one you bid on? From CNG Nov 20, 2013. I thought about trying for it but knew there were several other people who really wanted an example of the type.

https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=593&lot=178

 

=> Thar she blows!! (yup, that coin is beautiful, eh?)


TIF => thanks for tracking it down and making me relive the loss all over again!!



just jokes

 

LOL! Sorry for the PTSD flashback, coinbro.

 

Wow TIF, love those awesome coins...