CLAUDIUS II, Gothicus (AD 268-270) Antoninianus, g.Obverse: IMP CLAVDIVS AVG Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust, right.Reverse: AEQVTAS [sic] AVG Aequitas standing left, holding scales and cornucopiae.Mint city: Rome. . AD 268-70 Ref: RIC 15
did these come with your other unknown coin was well amos? i had a thought that it may be claudius ii.
yup, the toothbrush is working well, I still have 3 more to play with. Now you have me thinking....i never expected duplicates right off the bat, with only 5 coins....
Looks like this one is cleaning up just fine. Most CII coins were not struck well. When you find one with good detail, it's not typical.
So, i guess im 2 for 2 so far....funny thing is, looking at my last 3...I think they are all the same, not CII however. I had a bucket full of these marked like $1, spent an hour picking out 5 i liked, or thought i could clean up to identify it. This is addicting. I'm looking at these sleezbay auctions now...I want to buy like 500 of these
A few years ago I did the same. I bought a large lot of uncleaned coins of Ebay with the expectation I might find a few gems among them. Nada! I got a few LRBs that cleaned up OK, but the money I spent didn't produce good results. Mostly slugs with perhaps a quarter of them even identifiable. I decided it wasn't worth the money or effort, so instead same until I can afford coins of better quality. Hopefully, if you go this route, you will have better luck then I did.
These 2 so far are worth the buck each i tossed at them, i am becoming educated cheap. Just the look on the wife and kids faces when i asked them how old it was...all 3 of them said 1-200 years old. Then their minds were blown when i told them it was 1750 years old.
Amos => congrats on another new ancient pickup!! Here is my humble example of Claudius Gothicus ... Claudius II (Gothicus) AE Antoninianus 268-270 AD Claudius II (Gothicus) & Libertas => $16 (delivered to northern Manitoba!!) ... that's like 50 cents in US dollars!!
Cool coin---and like Bing, I rarely had a lot of luck with uncleaned lots....usually two keepers and perhaps one or two 'exceptional' examples of a LRB depending upon the size of the lot. One below is from such a purchase :
Coins of Claudius II are usulay poor - hard to finde well preserved. He was one of the most sucesfull general in Roma history who together with Aurelian fataly defeted much numbered Goth forces. Unfortunately he died of plague very soon. From this point of wiev his coins are imaportant for any ancient collection. I have several of them.
Here is mine: Claudius II (268 A.D. - 270 A.D.) Silvered Antoninianus O: IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right. R: NEPTVN AVG, Neptune standing left, dolphin in right, trident in left hand, A in ex. Antioch 20.7mm 2.67g RIC V 214 Sear 11353
I love uncleaned lots where you can pick out individual coins for a price and spending a day selecting potential winners could turn up a few keepers. On the other hand, sending $500 for 500 random (or selected as losers) uncleaned might turn up a couple $250 coins worth $5 and a lot of dirty scrap metal. I see no appeal here. I bought several LRB in this way about 15 years ago when I came across a box of thousands of small coins at $6 each and a 'better' (slightly larger for the most part) box at $15. I would not have paid $1 each for random grabs from either box because most were absolute junk. Besides, it is more fun to select only winners than it is to try to figure out what to do with hundreds of losers.
I bought 50 for $30 and have maybe 12 identifiable as coins...kind of fun, but a hard way to make a living.
