Rarities according to you

Here's a rarity for you. Not really ancient but almost. I'll let the coin sleuths identify it and see if they can track down where the only other known example is published.

Barry Murphy

 

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I can now put this here thanks to Mr. Sear.

Heraclius
638/639 AD
AE Follis, Constantinople
Obvs: No legend. Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine standing with cross between them.
Revs: Large M, Θ above, B below. ANNO to left, XX IϚ II right(29). CON in ex
23x25mm, 4.7g
Unpublished

You can view my original posting here
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/unusual-heraclius.295313/
Which explains why I think it's rare. I contacted David Sear because I was unsure if the above was actually what I thought it was, and it turns out I was right. So I can now say you are looking at the only bronze coin known to exist that was minted in Constantinople during the year 638/639!
I would still like to verify that no denominations exist, but as of yet I have found none.

 

Well I could show a bunch of eastern coins that are "rare" but how about a Byzantine conditional rarity.

Byzantine Empire
Anatolia, Nikomedia
Justinian (r. AD 527 - 565)
AE Large Module Follis (40 nummi)
43 mm x 23.78 grams
Obverse:Helmeted and cuirassed facing bust, holding globus cruciger and shield; cross to right - DNIVSTINI ANVS PP AVC
Reverse: Large M; cross above, date across field; ANNO left field, X/II/I right field - NIK in ex.
Ref: SB 201
Note: Dated yr. 13 (AD 539/40), Large planchet. Superb. Gorgeous perfect Green patina, slight doubling of the "M"

 

I think that your Julia is beautiful!

I fell for her beauty also. Here's mine. (Sorry—I've posted her before.)

 

A pretty rough lifetime portrait Julius Caesar -- but I love it!



Obverse: Julius Caesar laureate, right
CAESAR DICT PERPETVO

Reverse: Venus standing left, holding Victory and Sceptre
L BVCA

March 44 BC

Crawford 480/8

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First London Mint Follis:



Obverse: Diocletian laureate, right
IMP C DIOCLETIANVS PF AVG

Reverse: Genius of Rome standing, left
GENIO POPV _ LI ROMANI
LON (exergue)

RIC, Volume VI, Londinium, No. 1A

 

if reposting coins were illegal, we'd be a bunch of criminals and i would be a repost offender

 

I only know of two other examples of this type of knife, and mine is the best of them.

Small-size Boshan knife:

 

Very nice find! Well done.

 

As we've left ancient ancients, I can contribute with my rarest rare coin : a lot of types in the Dombes coinage are rare to exeedingly rare. Lucky me, supply and demand is on my side and I'm able to acquire some of them for decent prices (would you imagine a roman or US modern gold unicum go for less than 1500 $ ?)

The gold pistole (double ecu) is quite frequent for 1578 (frequent for Dombes means 30ish known examples), but really rare for 1575 and 1582 with one or two known examples of each. The 1579 example I show is the first known of its type and year of issue (and as such has been published in a french numismatic review).


LOUIS II DE MONTPENSIER (1560-1582)
Pistole, or - 1579 (inédite) - Atelier de Trévoux
+ LVDO . P . DOMBARVM . D . MONTISP Ecu de Bourbon couronné
+ DNS . ADIVTOR . ET . REDEM . MEVS . 1579 Croix feuillue
6.54 gr - 25-26 mm
Ref : Date inédite : Divo Dombes -, PA -, Mantellier -, Boudeau -, Sirand -

Q

 

Hi, Anyone know about this coin? I think it is a Obverse of Coin - al-Hafiz li-Din Allah, AH 526 / CE 1131-1132. 2239
Thanks

 

Welcome @George Verworren. You would do much better with more responses if you started a thread with this question.

 

Hi how do I do that? Thanks

 

My rarest coin i have Macrinus sestertius SECURITAS TEMPORVM

 

At the top of the page to the right hand side there is a box entitled "Post New Thread"

 

hello George welcome to CT ancients!

 

I wish I were from your area, or that mine had issued unique coinage. I envy your Dombes collection as I would collect exactly the same way if I were from the Dombes area. It reflects your heritage, an unique collecting niche, and captures a rare portion of Human History! Exactly my tastes and fascination in collecting. Well done, and congrats! I truly enjoy your posts.

 

I find it a bit offensive that I can not read this coin even though it would seem to be in the language I consider primary. I would be a lot more comfortable with a legend in Greek or Latin or Nagari or a few others that I don't read at all. When a coin that looks to be of UK orige is said to have only one other, one would have to look in the British Museum resources. There are letters that suggest a William but not being a UK collector I'd have no clue where to start. If we extend the definition of 'ancient' to include all coins made by hand and not machines we would only have a half million or so blind alleys to explore.

Thank for posting it, Barry. In truth, what I would love to see posted are coins submitted for NGC services that neither of you recognize straight off and make you have to pull a book off of a shelf. I assume this happens a few times a year. The recent Gemini sale including all those Dattari seconds (or were they the thirds, and tenths???) probably included a number of things unidentifiable by most of us but I am not sure how many people will be paying slab fees for rough Poor+ 1/5 1/5 extreme rarities. I have not even heard how many of the basal lots sold let alone what became of the potential sleepers.

 

Hi thanks for your kind greeting