Here's a Beat-Up Coin that I'm Super Stoked About :D

Neat!

As you can see from my avatar, I once collected a lot of "holey" coins, but since this is the Ancient forum, I'll just share the ancients.

This one was the onetime centerpiece of my "Holey Gold Hat" of avatar fame.



ZENO the Isaurian (474-491 AD), AV solidus, Victory, ex-Eliasberg, struck after 476 AD

Obverse- D N ZENO PERP AVG, diademed, helmeted and cuirassed three-quarter facing bust, holding spear over shoulder and shield decorated with horseman spearing a fallen enemy.
Reverse- VICTORI-A AVGGG, Victory standing left, holding long cross, two stars in field, CONOB in exergue.
Ex- Stack's auction of the Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr. Collection, 4/15/2005, Lot 24.


Then there was this enormous Byzantine (or "Romaion", if you prefer) follis, which I couldn't pass up for twenty bucks. First a scan, with a US dime shown for scale. Then photos.





Speaking of the Holey Coin ensemble, some folks had asked for pictures of it and I couldn't find them. Thought them lost for good, but then I discovered I had some in my old gallery at FORVM. So here they are.

The Holey Gold Hat, circa 2010 or thereabouts.
(A few of the individual coin pictures)


Holey Coin Vest I, circa 2000.


Holey Coin Vest II, circa 2004, from which the avatar was made, as you can see.
(Old tabby ruins at Retreat Plantation, St. Simons Island, GA in the background.)
(Here are some individual World coins off the vest - and some of the US coins.)

 

I denuded the hat of all the gold coins in the big 2013 purge, when I started the Box of 20 (all of my prior collections except my metal detecting finds got rolled into that).

But I kept the hat itself, and am now beginning to repopulate it, with holey love tokens.

 

Thanks, but sorry if I hijacked or unintentionally derailed it. I got excited there when I found the old pictures of my holey coins, which I thought were gone.

@Johndakerftw - apologies for forgetting to mention how cool I think that holey "comet" denarius is. I'd have happily put something like that on the Holey Coin Vest, back in the day.

I wonder if these "comet" pieces (and no doubt others) were holed in antiquity for religious/superstitious reasons, to be worn as talismans?

Keep 'em comin'. I love a good "beat up coins" thread.