My Last Batch of Uncleans

Here is my last remaining inventory of uncleans, hadn't had a chance to go through them and attribute some of the buggers. Lots of culls, too, from the looks of it. Pretty much all LRBs from the visible portraits, and many FTR types...

 

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That one on the left looks interesting

Seriously I hope you have fun sorting them.

 

So you just happened to find that beauty amongst that lot of uncleaned coins while everyone else missed it? Seems legit. Definitely no Photoshop.



On a serious note, I hope they turn out good. Can't wait to see the results.

 

I have a bad feeling about this.

Enjoy! Looks like fun!

 

Yeah that nice tet made it all worthwhile !

 

Are people still selling uncleaned coins? I am not interested, just curious.

 

I got the bag from crustyromans.com, which stopped selling hoards last year. I think this batch is one of the last ones they sold. I think nobleromancoins.com is still selling them and there is always eBay, which I would consider to be a last resort.

 

Quite a change from some years ago, when these were sold by the pound at the wholesale level. Some years back I saw a supermarket cart filled with bag after bag of uncleaned coins. I never could understand how seller could be absolutely certain there was nothing in there of substantial value - have ever heard of a spectacular find in a group of uncleaned?

 

The claim with one of the vendors is that they never picked through the lots to pull anything out of higher value. But that didn't stop the original discoverers/sources from doing so I imagine. About the most exciting things I found were an antoninianus of Macrianus and a denarius of Septimius Severus, plus a few rare late roman types and a smattering of Byzantines and two prutahs of Judaea.

 

Maybe he didn't, but his assistant probably did, which would make his claim still technically accurate. I'm always skeptical about those claims.

 

They are all picked over starting with the people who found them.

 

A Macrianus is a pretty nice find.

 

Purchased a few coins from you over the years. Welcome and thank you for the fair deals!

Best,
Brian

 

I remember! This is a great site - I plan on posting a bunch of coins here that I have questions about. I like the beagle!

 

I found a Caligula As in a batch of uncleaned coins but it's going back about 15 years or so...wish I had the before picture. Could probably be cleaned a bit more on the reverse.

 

Wow! That is a marvelous find!

 

Yeah, nice find. But I hate to say those days are long gone I believe.

 

What a great find!

 

Thanks guys. I agree those days will never be seen again. I caught the tail end of it...

 

I forgot to mention I am no longer buying uncleaned coins but just trying to upgrade those portraits I do have and filling out the list of every emperor and significant usurper.