Best Buy

It's been a couple of days now and I've stopped drooling over that Odoacer coin of @Valentinianvs so it's time to show the second best buy I've made over the years. I was looking through a well-known dealer's odds and ends many years back and came across a little bronze that simply said "unknown Greek coin" on it. I only had a somewhat passing knowledge of Greek issues but it just didn't look like anything I've ever seen. I was just starting to concentrate on the later Roman issues and it appeared to be an odd monogram, but I wasn't sure. I told him this doesn't look like a Greek type and was maybe Roman. He insisted it was Greek and said it's been sitting around for a year and nobody wanted it, but I could have it for $20. I took a chance and bought it. Here it is:

I think the late Roman guys can figure this out pretty quickly.

Any best buy stories out there?

 

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Nice. Is it small? Looks like one of these Dark Age uncouth barbs (I like them!). The reverse is like a monogram.

 

It's an ae4 size at 10mm and it's not barbarous.

 

I know who it is but I'll let someone else take this. That being said, I wish I could be as lucky as you Brian, and like Valentinianvs and the other specialists in these coins.

 

It sure has me puzzled....but that's fairly easy to do

 

Beautifuul coin @Brian Bucklan , I know the story of this coin, you told me by email when I bought a coin from your store (may be you remember me, Ricardo Veltri, from Argentina )
I want to find this monogram some day... one of the hasdest ever!

 

You wouldn't happen to be a seller on eBay would you? I think there is one there with your username and from Argentina.

 

Ricardo! I didn't know this was you. Great to hear from you. It's been quite a while. And if you ever find another decent Odoacer please let me know.

 

Oh well, I may not have Anthemius or Odoacer but at least I still have my precious Jovinus

 

I was under the impression you had an Odoacer. Not that you wouldn't want an upgrade but I figured you had one or two already.

 

I have two, but I am not proud of either. The one owned by @Valentinianus is about as good as it gets.

 

Remember, you are contractually obligated to sell one of them to me if and when you upgrade

 

Yes VK! I usualley sell on eBay, under this same nickname!

Nice to talk to you again! You know me since Im a begginer in the coins of the fifth century!

You are really a lucky with this BEAUTIFULL Jovinus!! Really.. NICE!!

 

Ehhh, I suppose the blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while

 

Or a nut finds a nice Anthemius monogram once in a while.

 

Or a nut find a squirrel that sells an Odoacer once in a while

 

This is one of my best buys, from @Brian Bucklan , another rarity, Basiliscus and Marcus nummus monogram:



Basiliscus and Marcus, 475-476 AD
Nummus, minted in Cizicus?
Obv.: DN bASIL ET MARC PF AVG (or similar), draped bust right.
Rev.: Monogram of Basiliscus and Marcus.
RIC X 1034

 

VK: I promise I sold this before I knew you. Really. I swear.

 

And I'm the sad squirrel looking at the two other ones selling Odoacer and Anthemius coins with each other. Oh wait I am blind so at least I am spared that sight

 

Lol I was wondering when you had this coin for sale. It's cool though. Even better knowing it went to a (now) fellow forum member