Ancients: Roadkill edition

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by Sallent, Jun 4, 2019.

  1. Severus Alexander

    Severus Alexander find me at NumisForums

    Since it is around 4.5g, my bet is that it is a Late Roman/Byzantine solidus or "nomisma" weight. I have seen them with similar patterns. Very cool to be made from such an early coin!! (Here's one that is early, but not that early.)

    My two 12 keratia weights (?) made from coins:
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  3. Justin Lee

    Justin Lee I learn by doing

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  4. chrsmat71

    chrsmat71 I LIKE TURTLES!

    Look at the surfaces on this thing! Yikes! It actually looks worse in hand! LOL!



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    Caracalla, Moesia Inferior, Marcianopolis, 198-217 AD

    Obverse: AVT M APHΛI ANTΩNEINOC, Laureate draped cuirassed bust right Reverse: V I ΦAVCTINIANOV MAPKIANOΠOΛI / TΩN, Tyche standing facing, head left, holding rudder and cornucopia 29 mm 11.0 g Julius Faustinianus, consular legate.
     
  5. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

  6. furryfrog02

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  7. zumbly

    zumbly Ha'ina 'ia mai ana ka puana

    Man, Chris, you have such high standards. :D Seriously, that's not half-bad in my book.

    Can you believe I actually bought this one and didn't just pick it up after running over it with my car? I think I once counted that it has more craters than the moon.

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    AE25. 10.14g, 25.1mm. MACEDONIA, Thessalonica, circa AD 218-222. Varbanov 4444. O: AV K M AVR ANTWNINOC, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. R: QECCALONIKEWN, Nike advancing left, holding small Kabirus and palm branch.
     
  8. SeptimusT

    SeptimusT Well-Known Member

    Oooh, I’ve got a lot of these :joyful:

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    Hadrian AE Drachm, Alexandria mint, Year 18 (AD 133/4), RPC 5914, Dattari 7915
    Obverse:
    ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙС ΤΡΑΙΑΝ - ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟС СƐΒ, laureate, draped bust right
    Reverse: L IH, sphinx with crown of disc, horns and feathers, with crocodile emerging from chest, walking, r., on serpent; above, small Athena advancing, r., with spear and wreath

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    Trajan AE Drachm, Alexandria mint, Year 13 (109/10), RPC 4411
    Obverse
    : ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ СƐΒ ΓƐΡ ΔΑΚΙΚ, laureate bust of Trajan, r., nude and with aegis on l. shoulder
    Reverse: kalathos in biga of oxen or buffaloes right

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    Obverse: DIVI F IMP CAESAR, bareheaded bust of Augustus right
    Reverse: A PLAVTIVS PRO COS, temple of Aphrodite at Paphos and courtyard
    Struck ~21 BC at Paphos, Cyprus, 15mm, 3.5g, RPC 3906

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    Augustus Denarius (delaminating, not fouree)
    Obverse
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    Augustus, oak-wreathed left
    Reverse: CAESAR AVGVSTVS in two lines above and below two laurel-branches
    RIC 33b, Minted in Spain (Colonia Caesaraugusta?) in 18-19 BC
     
  9. TypeCoin971793

    TypeCoin971793 Just a random guy on the internet

    I’d say this is a pretty low standard ;)

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  10. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

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    ANASTASIUS
    Half Follis
    OBVERSE: D N ANASTASIVS P P AVG - Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right
    REVERSE: Large K - cross to left, Γ to right
    Struck at Constantinople 491-518 AD
    .03g, 8.5mm
    SB 23
     
  11. Clavdivs

    Clavdivs Well-Known Member

    Antonius Pius is slowly fading away.....

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  12. Erhan

    Erhan Active Member

    I am all about how coin feels at hand. Many ugly coins for some looks beautiful for me. For example this Narseh is a coin 90% collectors would pass on it but I love it . It is rare and has mint mark below fire altar which was missed by collectors who passed on it.



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  13. Orfew

    Orfew Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus

    Here is a worn Domitian denarius that I bought because I might never have the opportunity to own another one. According to David all left facing Domitian denarii are rare but the ones issued for him as Caesar are especially so. So when given the choice between owning a worn example or none at all the choice was simple.

    Domitian as Caesar Denarius 79 to 24 June
    18mm., 3,15g.
    Obv:Head laureate l; CAESAR AVG F DOMITIANVS COS VI
    Rev: Salus stg r resting on column feeding snake out of patera; PRINCEPS IVVENTUTIS
    RIC 1085 [Vespasian] BMC page 47 note. RSC 385.
    Ex: Savoca Blue 19thauction April 21, 2019 Lot 1138

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  14. Suarez

    Suarez Well-Known Member

    A thread dedicated to dregs? Heh, too easy!

    Here's a decrepit fella. Still valuable (look carefully)
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  15. lrbguy

    lrbguy Well-Known Member

    This train wreck is important to me but is no great howling rarity and is not actually one that I would normally collect. It is an AE24 Roman Provincial of Titus from Judean Ascalon. The obverse bears his portrait left with the abbreviation CEB descending left; the reverse has the city goddess standing left with ASKELO (in Greek) in left field, and DNG (in Greek low to the right) indicating year 80-81. The seller was a long experienced dealer but could not find it in any of the standard references back when I bought it, in late 1987. I never tried to follow up on it.
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    So why did I buy it if it it didn't fit in with anything. Part of the reason is that I was still in the early stages of collecting and had left open any possibility for a direction to go. But the main reason I wanted it had little to do with the collection I was forming.

    In the summer of 1987 I spent six weeks in Israel on an archaeological excavation as a volunteer under the auspices of the University of Chicago. The dig was year two of the Leon-Levy Expedition directed by Prof Lawrence Stager (then at Chicago but soon after, Harvard) and located in the Israeli National Park in Ashkelon. I had bought numerous antiquities while in Israel, but none from Ashkelon and no coins. So when I got back I started looking for something to connect with the time on the dig. The squares in which I had worked had been digging in Late Bronze in one and Iron II in another, and from them I had some sherds the director let me keep, but nothing recognizable that really said "Ashkelon." So when I got back I found a coin dealer who had some inexpensive pieces like this one. For less than $30 I got a lifetime memory piece that puts me back there to this day. Sometimes its all about time and place.
     
  16. Sallent

    Sallent Live long and prosper

    A heartfelt thank you to all you guys for all the "roadkill" beauties you've shared, and the reasons behind why you got them. I didn't think this thread would get so much participation, but it's been lovely to see all your coins. Thanks for sharing.

    I'll post another coin. Not sure I'd call this "roadkill" but it's certainly a standout due to it's weak strike and extremely poor flan quality. Almost looks like it was struck on a raw piece of copper. That's the reason why I got it, I fell in love with the poor quality control on display here...

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    Tetricus II
     
  17. Severus Alexander

    Severus Alexander find me at NumisForums

    For the less experienced checking out this thread at some point... this is a Martinian!

    Very cool, @Suarez. Also cool that it's overstruck on a camp city gate. :)
     
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  18. Suarez

    Suarez Well-Known Member

    :- )
     
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  19. Severus Alexander

    Severus Alexander find me at NumisForums

    @Suarez, here's my own ugly duckling that proves to be a swan upon closer examination:

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  20. Finn235

    Finn235 Well-Known Member

    Always a favorite, a barely-attributable dupondius of Herod Antipas, the "John the Baptist's head on a silver platter" dude. Immensely rare denomination from a key player in the New Testament. His coins have gone down quite a bit since I first picked this one up, but in a $1/coin lot, I'll never duplicate this success
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    Along the same lines, here is my fiddy-cent Pontius Pilate picked from a lot that I somehow felt compelled to buy.
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    Much less cheap, but an acceptable hole filler for Pertinax. Have you ever seen what a problem free VF of his goes for? Yeesh...
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    Carausius hole filler $20
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    Allectus, $15
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    A budget Otho
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    Tiberius Gemellus - these are usually horrid
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    Nero Claudius Drusus sestertius
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    Hostilian as Caesar
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    An exceptionally rare (about 10 known) "Sri DaMa" drachm
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  21. akeady

    akeady Well-Known Member

    This is an ugly but rare Otho duckling - only known from one pair of dies. RIC 2 - Bare head right, IMP OTHO CAESAR AVG TR P / Ceres, CERES AVG.

    It had a hole drilled into the edge (not visible here) and a small amount of silver removed for metallurgical analysis as part of a study reported in "The Denarii of Otho: A stylistic and Compositional Study", in Italian Numismatic Review 2009.
    Some of the other coins used for the study had a quarter or up to half of the coin removed and melted, so this one got off lightly. The coins used for the paper were sold by a Vcoins dealer in 2010 and I haven't noticed any of the cut-up coins since.

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