Help to Identify Coin

She wolf I have a couple of them.

 

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Thanks. Very nice.

 

I have a couple VRBS ROMA, but they are not my collecting focus:

 

SMALA...Mine

 

I rather like the She-Wolf from the Roman Republic vs. the Evil Empire:


Roman Republic
Anon AE Sextans 217-215 BCE
She-Wolf Twins
Eagle
Syd 95 Cr 39/3 Sear 609


Roman Republic
Sextus Pompeius 137 BCE
AR Denarius
She-Wolf Rom Rem
Sear 112 Cr 235/1a


Roman Republic
Satrienus 77 BCE
AR Denarius
Mars
She Wolf Sear 319 Craw 388/1
(Kids are playing elsewhere )

 

Prices: New collectors have a hard time adapting to the price situation with ancients. We have no comprehensive listings like Red Books or Greysheets. Every day someone will be selling a lesser example of a coin for a higher price than someone else will for a better one. Sometimes this is a matter of location. Sellers with high overhead like a storefront in London will get more for a coin than a guy in his spare room operating online. Otherwise rational people will pay $200 for a common $20 coin because it was last owned by a big name seller or that it is in a slab and someone told them that all coins not in slabs are fakes. For the most part, prices depend on how bad you want something. I recently paid 10x as much for a coin I wanted and got a great bargain on a coin that nobody else wanted. Which was the better buy? You will pay less if you study more and don't feel you must have that particular coin on that particular day. You choose; you pay.

Grading: It is rare to find two ancients exactly the same in every respect. Some people consider lack of wear all important while others value centering, strike, surfaces, minor varieties etc. more important. When it comes to strike, not all weakly struck coins are weak in the same way so some people might prefer a coin with better legends or a better reverse while others care only about a portrait. Depending on who is selling and who is buying, price results will vary. You choose; you pay.

 

Unbelievable quality for that price. Nice one.

 

I don't have these in hand yet, but bought these at VCoins...

Love the obverse. I've paid US$ 18.00 for this one, excluding US$ 5.00 that went towards international shipping (normally closer to $50 where I am at).


I've paid € 70.00 for this one including international shipping. Not cheap, but in an excellent condition given what was available at that price. I am kind of fussy when it comes to condition.​

 

I keep all my ancients in 2 x 2 cardboard/mylar holders,

but I am getting dangerously close to trashing all those holders and switching to mylar flips so that I can take the coins out of their holders and handle them more easily.

The only thing stopping me at this point is the rather daunting task of copying all the information that I've written about the coin--ruler, reverse, mint, etc.--on the holder onto little pieces of paper to stick into the flip with the coin.

All you old-timers like me: remember film slides? You took them with a camera and needed a slide projector to show them? Many years ago I came across a large stack of unused slide holders--plastic sheets with pockets to hold 20 slides per sheet--that someone was giving away. The pockets were exactly the right size for holding coin holders or flips, and the sheets were designed to fit into 3-ring binders. I grabbed them, probably 2 or 3 dozen altogether. So I keep all my coins in holders, all the holders in these slide sheets, and all the sheets in different 3-ring binders according to topic or time period.