Coin show haul!

This is my second time going to a coin show, first time was last year February, and the world did a 180 since then!
I didn't have any particular coins in my mind going in, but had a budget of 200 aud (~150 usd), this time I knew the ancient coins I was looking at compared to last year when I had no idea.
So here they are,

I really like the Dacia Capta of the Trajan dupondius, and I got that Domitian as I wanted a fourree for a while. And bunch of other late Roman bronzes including Valentinian, Honorius, and Tetricus. I'll make posts about them later.
There were only 3 tables with ancients out of 40 or so, and most of them just had 3rd century antoniniani and late Roman bronzes, and most denari were from the adoptive dynasty, also there was a single Caligula and a bunch of other worn Republican silver as well.
This was one of the showcases I saw, look at those Roman gold

 

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All that for $150?? Solid!

PS - Love all those Australian Crowns in that bottom picture. I wish I could get my hands on one of them for a reasonable price here.

 

actually got that gold for spot price (71 usd for 1.2g 24K)!

 

I would've def bought that!
That means you got the rest of those coins for like $80USD. I don't think I'd be able to do that here.

 

this or pay 100 bucks for a half a gram of high premium Perth mint kangaroo in flashy package, but to my eyes gold is gold!

 

Is it Somali?
If so, that's even cooler, at least to me, since I work as a Somali linguist.

 

although for some reason silver was overpriced, even a generic 1 oz round was priced 5 dollars usd more than the spot value! wonder why!

 

It was actually a surprise to me, I never knew Somalia made coins like these, I'm pretty sure they contracted it to some European mint from what I understand.

 

Yeah none of their coins are made in-country. The silver and gold that is "from" Somalia is more like Franklin Mint type stuff. I still buy the silver elephants since it still has a place near and dear to my heart
The only things that were produced in-country are their 1000 shilling notes from the reign of the dictator Siyad Barre before everything fell to complete crap.
After his death, the notes were heavily counterfeited by various war lords around the country.
I got a big stack of them during one of my trips to Somalia and you can tell which are legit and which are counterfeit based on serial numbers and stuff. Kinda interesting They all circulate though and the populace doesn't care.

 

May I ask what the picture on the large ancient coin in the middle is of?

 

Nice haul...

 

Nice purchase, especially with the gold piece.

 

How big of a stack?

 

I came back with about 100 of the 1,000 shillings. About enough to buy a cup of coffee. Certainly not like the bricks you see in the markets.

A lot of people have turned to services that transfer money between people via their phones.

 

i would love to get a few stacks of undervalued currency, do you know anywheres to get things of that nature??

 

I know that Germany had massive inflation in the early 20th century. I have a few of them. They are cool notes that you can pickup for really cheap but I'm not sure where. (eBay is not the place.)

 

If you're looking to buy a few stacks of overly inflated currency, you can always try Venezuelan Bolivars. You can find stacks of 100 notes on eBay for $15.99 from a quite a number of American sellers.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/VENEZUELA-...704176?hash=item1ceab34fb0:g:N9IAAOSwPuFeyDpk

 

When Trajan conquered Dacia (modern day Romania) after multiple battles from 101-106 AD, he issued coins featuring Dacia (a female representation of the place) mourning the loss with the captured shields and trophies.

 

Looks like the Dacia Capta dupondius is being eaten away by bronze disease (the green stuff). If left untreated, the coin will eventually disintegrate completely. And BD can spread so keep the dupondius well away from your other bronze coins.

 

I thought that too, but it looks uniform, feels smooth and not flaky, maybe just a patina?!