Just scooped up a handful of coins new to my collection from the May 2019 auctions. Am gonna move them now into Abafils. It occurs to me that collectors of modern US coins never experience this pleasure. I try never forget that these coins are money and are very robust hard metal and meant to be handled just like this.
Beautiful coins. I have never taken mine out of the flips and held them all together like that. Perhaps I need to
Love pics like this & I agree it's a fun experience that most U.S. collectors don't get to do. I do it on occasion with world moderns too since mine is average grade/raw.
Dropped them into an Abafil along with some other coins scattered about on my desk (some I've had for quite a while). This is probably a nicer presentation.
Nice coins @Andrew McCabe . I like to show a few treasures at local coin clubs. I only ask that folks have clean & dry hands (we meet at the Golden Corral buffet restraunt) before holding coins out of the flips.
Love those huge cast bronzes. For bronzes, flips are potentially gonna do a lot more damage than hands. Chlorine in PVC > hydrochloric acid. No doubt we all use coin-safe PVC-free flips but just saying … there are a lot worse surfaces than hands.
It's a denarius of Lucius Staius Murcus struck 41 BC, an ally of Brutus and Cassius. Yes the obverse is Neptune (Poseidon) with trident over shoulder. But to my mind there's something else that looks like a civic crown (turreted crown) also over his shoulder with the trident going through it. This latter detail isn't in any of the reference works, but one can see a plain band with castellations behind the head that cannot be hair. This type usually comes with dreadful dies; this is one of the best obverses and maybe this detail has been missed. The reverse has a male figure at right raising a female at left by the hand with a trophy behind. This is the second example of the type I've owned, I used to have the RBW (NAC63) coin but sold it a couple years back. My new coin comes from a 1960 Vinchon sale in Paris and is illustrated in Banti C.N.R. as well as in the Vinchon sale catalogue. Be aware that there are multiple modern (post 2015) fakes of this rarity that have passed through seemingly reputable auctions, some selling for multiples of what this cost. This goes to show the value of a good provenance such as my coin has.
That is one of the rarest coins in the Roman Republican series, and @Andrew McCabe 's example is one of the best I've seen! Really, a terrific group of coins.
It is absolutely stunning. Now knowing it is one of the rarest in the series....I will mark it off my list of things I would like to find I will admire it from afar.
Not sure about this. To my eye, it looks like hair and die cracks suggesting a crown. Perhaps we should look at other examples to be sure, but what better examples or less die-worn examples could we find?
So that is typical of what's on top of your desk at any time? So, where do you live, and when are you taking your next vacation?