Chipped but exceptional

Yes I was lucky mostly in a blank area, although when I received the coin from NN there was a tiny little bit broken off from below the porch area, not bad enough to send it back (I keep that in the flip as well)

 

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Theodore I, Empire of Nicaea 1208-1222
(in Sear's Byzantine Coins as 2064)
Electrum 35-30 mm. Chipped. 3.65 grams.
Christ seated facing
Emperor on left and St. Theodore on the right.
Sear 2064. DO IV.II Theodore I 2.
I bought it already chipped. The picture reproduces the color well on my screen. It is electrum, but pale. Christ seated/Full-length figure of emperor on left an St. Theodore on the right. A gorgeous strike. Fortunately the chip does not affect any of the design. Nevertheless, I think it reduces the value to less than half what it would be without the chip.

 

A great way to get a bargain!

 

CHIP



Carthage - Zeugitana AR Shekel-Didrachm 360-264 BCE Tanit Horse r head l palm SNG COP 141

 

one of the top favorites in my collection

 

Amazing!

That's great

 

This is my little chippy. I had to keep her despite the chip! I am not sure
what happened to her... broken, clipped, dropped, split, downpayment.



Salonina, Sole reign of Gallienus. AD 260-268
AE antoninianus; 2.64g; 18-21mm
Milan mint
SALONINA AVG,
diademed, draped bust right on crescent
VENVS VICT,
Venus standing left, holding helmet and sceptre, elbow on shield at her side
Mintmark MS in exergue
RIC V-1, 67 Milan; Göbl 1368o

 

Nice. Maybe it was an attempt to hole it for suspension that went wrong.

 

I like broken coins - they are usually cheap. Not that I seek them out, but sometimes it is the only way I can get an otherwise unaffordable type. Here is a $7.14 Philip the Arab with an elephant - the chip is so huge it might be more of a "break" - but both the portrait and the pachyderm are (mostly) intact.



Philip I Antoninianus
(248-249 A. D.)
Rome Mint
IMP PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / AETERNITAS AVGG, elephant walking left, carrying rider who holds goad & wand
RIC 58; RSC 17; Sear 8921.
(2.58 grams / 22 mm)

 

now a 1/3 Shekel

 

I never thought of that!

 

Very, very chipped, so much that I have not measured or weighted it:

Holy Roman Empire, Friedrich I, AR Bracteate
Imperial mint Altenburg, 1152 - 1190
Ref.: Slg. Löbbecke 697; F. Erfurt 58 var; Gotha 329; Belfort 1173

As medieval coin style moved away from past models of the Greeks and Romans to lighter pieces, the Bracteate, a uniface coin, came into being. Invented in Poland, it remained popular until 1350. The name derived from the Latin bractea, thin metal piece. Given their thinness, such fragile coins could not be struck from a set of dies for obverse ("heads") and reverse ("tails") images. Instead, the thin silver or gold was hammered over a raised relief so that the image was impressed into the metal.

 

Two chipped British medieval Anglo-Saxon coins:


Aethelwald Moll of Northumbria (759-765), with Archbishop Ecgberht of York
Provenance of this coin dates back to 1840s, has been in several prominent collections (Stewartby, Grantley, Rashleigh, Dymock).
Was the only known coin of this long forgotten king until recently. Metal detectorists have discovered an additional two or three examples since the 1990s. Remains very rare though.



Wiglaf of Mercia, probably 2nd reign (830-839)
Despite a decade in power, coins of this era and of this monarch are exceedingly rare. Last I checked, there were 12 or 13 coins of Wiglaf known, about half in museums. Mercia was something of a mess during the 820s and 830s as a result of Viking attacks on one side and attacks from the ascendant kingdom of Wessex on the other.

Both of these coins are of course damaged, but the extreme rarity of the issue makes them still have collector appeal, even if the aesthetics are lacking.

 

Here's an important, but partial, ceremonial silver miliaresion of Constantine IV, Constantinople, 668 AD. 2.88 gr. 20.8 mm. 7hr. This obverse bust type, with the emperor crowned, wearing chlamys and holding globus cruciger, corresponds to that of Class I of the solidus. The only published specimens of C. IV ceremonial silver depict an armored and helmeted bust, holding a spear and shield. There are two varities of this type, one with a beardless bust, the other, with a bearded portrait.


Several years ago I acquired an example of the bearded type: Constantinople, 674-85 AD. Sear 1165; Hahn 61; DO 20. Ex CNG 106, lot 876. 4.42 gr. 21.3 mm. 6 hr.

 

@arizonarobin : your coin reminds me of something......

 

Here my Gepid with some epic chips/clips.

Sirmium,Serbia
Ostrogoths (Gepids)
Theodoric in the name of Anastasius (AD 491-518)
AR Fractional Siliqua
16 mm x 0.64 grams
Obverse: Diademed draped bust right. - DNANASTASIVSPAV
Reverse: Monogram of Theodoric ♰ ROMANI*VINVICTA
Ref: Wroth 74

 

That's really nice