Help me identify this ancient coin please

Okay... google this circulated coin then and tell me what you think


SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles (317-289 BCE)
310-305 BCE
AR tetradrachm, 17.40 g, 24 mm
Obv: head of the nymph Arethusa left, wearing grain wreath, earring and necklace; around, three dolphins; under, monogram (NK?)
Rev: ΣYPAKOΣIΩN, fast chariot charioteer leads to left, holding reins and kentron; above, triskeles; in exergue, monogram
Ref: Ierardi 12 (O2-R8); SNG Copenhagen 573 var., SNG ANS 637

Or this (a coin belonging to AncientJoe):

Marcus Junius Brutus, Assassin of Caesar and Imperator (44-42 BC). AR denarius (3.73 gm). Mint moving with Brutus in northern Greece, L. Plaetorius Cestianus, magistrate, late summer-autumn 42 BC. BRVT IMP L. PLAET. CEST., bare head of Brutus right, wearing slight beard / EID MAR, pileus (cap of liberty) between two daggers. Crawford 508/3. Cahn 7a (same dies). CRI 216. RSC 15. RCV 1439

 

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Who ever is Doug meister that coins beat up and not worth much

 

Well much would have me pay one off you for then

 

Matty, suggest you lurk around on this forum and you might learn something. Otherwise we are just going to have a lot of fun reading your posts

 

Coin dealers would sell it for 100 dollars but less when you sell to them

 

Wow wished o had one of those coins all I collect is regular money like Penny's nickles dimes and quarters wheat Penny's and half dollars and gold dollar coins and I want to get a Morgan silver dollar

 

Thanks guys

 

You want a Morgan? I'll send you one I have many of them although I recently sold most to free up money for buying ancients, which everyone on this board finds infinitely more interesting.

My Morgans are circulated though

 

Or even US coins for that matter. This Birch Cent is graded AU58 (circulated) and will probably sell for $2M: http://www.stacksbowers.com/BrowseAuctions/LotDetail/tabid/227/AuctionID/6065/Lot/2577/Default.aspx

Being circulated does not even remotely make a coin valueless.

 

Thanks to everyone. I bought it from a dealer's foreign coin box. He didn't know what it was and I didn't either. Paid $10 so I think I did okay.

(Help! The Ancients are sucking me back in! Help!!!)

 

I would agree, and now you know what it is and that has to be worth $10.

 

True, true.

And Hadrian was one of the 5 "good emperors", so he was actually on my list of coins to get at some point anyway. I've heard of "Hadrian's Wall", so this made me do some research into this man's life. That is the true value of this coin I guess ;-)

 

Sure I'll by one Morgan off you

 

Well send me on I'll give you a roller for one (edited) and my names Matthew dunn

 

I ment dollar

 

Whoa there, Matty... never post your name and address on a public forum. Mods, help!!

 

I'll give you a dollar for one (edited) my names Matthew dunn

(Took the address out.)

 

Matty, don't ever post personal identifying information on a public forum, it is a safety issue! As for the dollar, keep it . I'll send you a Morgan and an ancient coin.

 

Did you get the address still