What Your Budget Buys - $300 Edition

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by zumbly, Sep 21, 2017.

  1. Ancient Aussie

    Ancient Aussie Well-Known Member

    This one just get's into this category at US $250 including hammer fees and delivery, quite scarce in this condition, Divus Antoninus Pius, Rome 161 AD, AE Sestertius 32.2mm, 25.24gm, Large Enclosure/altar. RIC 1272. 1000-34-189.jpg
     
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  3. ValiantKnight

    ValiantKnight Well-Known Member

    Like $300-$350-ish it was listed for if I recall? I traded several coins for it so I kind of sort of paid $0 for it.

    Galla Placidia, Western Roman Empire
    AE nummus
    Obv: D N GALLA PLA-CIDIA P F AVG, female, pearl-diademed bust right, wearing necklace and earrings
    Rev: SALVS REI-PVBLICE around cross, T in left field
    Mint: Rome
    Mintmark: RM
    Date: 425-437 AD
    Ref: RIC X 2111

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  4. Julius Germanicus

    Julius Germanicus Well-Known Member

    My Hostilian (as Augustus during the short time of his joint reign with Trebonianus Gallus) belongs into this category as well. To keep my old coins from boring you, I took some some new pictures under the kitchen lamp :)

    IMP CAE C VAL HOS MES QVINTUS AVG - Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Hostilian right
    SECVRITAS AVGG SC - Securitas standing facing, looking right, her legs crossed, placing right hand on head and resting left arm on column
    Sestertius, Rome ca. July-August 251
    14,69 gr / 28,37 mm
    RIC 225, Hunter p. 254.3 and pl. 81, Cohen 60, Sear 9593

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  5. akeady

    akeady Well-Known Member

    I found that I have at least 19 coins which cost around $300 - here are some of them:

    This new-style Athens tetradrachm came from a CGB auction in 2004 - flatly struck and the original listing said it may have been overstruck on an earlier coin, but little enough wear - it was €250.
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    €276 from a Kuenker auction in 2010, with a provenance to a 1930 Ars Classica auction, this Neapolis didrachm (I don't know what the white stuff is):
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    $291.20 including fees for a Nero auerus seemed a good deal in a CNG e-auction in 2010. It is a contemporary Indian imitation and the reverse legend seems garbled; the best reference I can come with is "cf RIC 25, 31, 36, 40":
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    This was an ugly coin to spend €250 on in 2010 from Grotjohann, but it is a very rare denarius of Otho (RIC 2 - 1 of 7 known), which has had a small hole drilled into an edge as part of published research on the metallurgy of Otho's denarii:
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    £287 for this Lysimachos tetradrachm in a 2013 Roma sale, from the Tanenbaum collection (who was Tanenbaum? - I remember googling him at the time, but can't recall any findings now):
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    This photo' is from the seller and so better, though smaller, than my efforts.

    I was happy to get this Augustus/Gaius denarius in 2016 for £319 from Naville:

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    The last one is from this year - €263 from CGB for this Memmia 10/Crawford 427/1 denarius. She deserves a better photo' than this 'phone effort:
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    Sorry for length, it was hard to leave some out :D

    ATB,
    Aidan.
     
  6. Svarog

    Svarog Well-Known Member

    fantastic Athena for this price
     
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  7. Mikey Zee

    Mikey Zee Delenda Est Carthago

    WOW!! So many posts of incredible value and beauty!!
     
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  8. Ancient Aussie

    Ancient Aussie Well-Known Member

    All fantastic coins akeady, great buying in this price range.
     
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  9. Orfew

    Orfew Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

    This one was almost exactly 300.00
    Iulius Caesar. Denarius mint moving with Caesar 49-48., AR (18.66 mm., 3.85g).
    Obv: Pontifical emblems: culullus, aspergillum, axe and apex.
    Rev: Elephant r., trampling dragon; in exergue, CAESAR.
    Babelon Julia 9. C 9. Sydenham 1006. Sear Imperators 9. RBW 1557. Crawford 443/1.
    SRCV I (2000) 1399, RSC 49
    Ex: E.E. Clain Stefanelli, Ex: Naville Numismatics Auction #25 Lot 378 September 25, 2016.
    Paid 300.00
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  10. non_cents

    non_cents Well-Known Member

    This was being offered on eBay for $400, but I submitted a Best Offer of $310 which was accepted pretty quickly.

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  11. Julius Germanicus

    Julius Germanicus Well-Known Member

    The same applies to my Mariniana Sestertius...

    DIVAE MARINIANAE - Veiled, diademed bust of Mariniana to the right
    CONSECRATIO S C - Peacock standing facing
    Sestertius, Rome 253/54
    26 mm, 15,57 gr, 12 h
    RIC 9 corr, C 7

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  12. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    In the $250-300 range:

    Ancient Roman Republic: silver denarius of moneyer L. Furius Brocchus, ca. 63 BC
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    (NGC Ch VF; Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5)

    German States (Teutonic Order): silver 1/4-thaler of Grand Master Maximilian of Austria, ca. 1615
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    (PCGS XF45; population 1 - the only example certified by PCGS as of 10/8/2017)

    Belgium (Austrian Netherlands): copper 2 liards (2 Oorden), Insurrection coinage, 1790
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    (NGC MS63 BN; population 3 with 4 higher as of 7/28/2017)

    Great Britain: gold half-sovereign of Queen Victoria, 1901, from the Terner Collection
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    (PCGS MS64; population 10 with 6 higher as of 10/8/2017)
     
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