Share Your Uglies!!

With JWs recent post, I figured we could share "ugly" coins in our collection.

This doesnt have to be ancient only.

Some of mine:

 

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Nice uglies Mat. I got a few from a $5 grab bag I'll post in a while. They definitely qualify.

 

Here they are...I haven't gotten around to attributing them yet.

 

I could probably spend all day posting to this thread, but instead, I'll select out a few.

THASOS AR Drachm


PTOLEMY IV


IBERIAN Æ Half Unit

 

P. SATRIENUS


CN.PLANCIVS


C VIBIUS CF CN PANSA CAETRONIANUS

 

MARCUS ANTONIUS


VESPASIAN


ANONYMOUS Æ Quadrans

 

Wow, finally a thread my ancients would fit in, only I never took any pictures of them because they're so ugly.

 

NERVA


HADRIAN


ELAGABALUS

 

Do I win? If not I have more.

 

I would have to throw nearly my entire collection in this thread. lol

 

Philip I AE As. 244-249 AD, 8.2g, 24mm

OBV: IMP M IVL PHILLIPVS AVG, Laureate, draped & cuirassed bust right.

REV: LAET FVNDAT S-C, Laetitia standing left on prow with patera & rudder.

REF: RIC 176b, Cohen 76.

 

Nero. AD 54-68. AE As, Rome mint. 63 AD. 6.8g, 23.50mm

OBV: NERO CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER P M TR P IMP PP, Laureate head right.

REV: GENIO AVGVSTI, S-C across fields, I in exergue, Genius standing left, holding patera and cornucopiae, sacrificing over lighted altar to left.

REF: RIC I 214; Sear 1977; WCN 269; BMC 252.

 

...As would VK!

 

Can you guess the two common deities in this ancient ugly tiny coin?

 

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac59ugl.html
Some of my finer uglies are on my page but I'll post here my favorite ugly and the one I would most like to know who has owned since it was minted. It is a survivor of bronze disease.


"When a 'good' Emperor died he was 'deified' with a special issue of commemorative coins. Caracalla was not very 'good' and (by coincidence??) his consecration issues are very rare . The coins were possibly issued by Elagabalus who deified Caracalla (and claimed to be his son) but some students assign them to Severus Alexander because of the MAGNO reference to Alexander (the Great). I do not know. Rarest are the sestertii. In the American Numismatic Society book Treasures of Ancient Coinage, page 116, a gorgeous fine+ specimen with 5 level pyre is listed as 'Probably the finest of four known'. (Sorry, those of you who only will have mint state!) Banti, I Grandi Bronzi Imperiali, IV-1 p. 144, lists two 5 level pyre coins; one, sharing the obverse die with my coin, is illustrated. The 4 level version is listed as being in Vaillant (a book from 1743 which I have not seen) and illustrated with a line drawing. First, we need to be aware that few coins are as rare as such census reports would indicate. This coin was probably a recent hoard find. Finds over the last century could well have doubled the census of these coins. The coin has been tooled considerably to remove bronze disease (ugly pits are better than losing the whole coin!). I consider the die match with the Banti illustration to be evidence that the coin was not tooled into a rarity but actually is what remains of a very rare coin. Is it too ugly to appear in your collection?"

 

No...as long as it's free!

 

Geez, you guys are killing me! This one isn't an ancient but it looks like it's been around for a couple of thousand years. Unbelievable, but you can still see the date (1841 Large Cent). I bought it because I felt sorry for it...needs a lot of lovin'

Bruce

 

Here is an Emperor heading left and surviving the BD. I cannot identify it. Charles