Two ancients I found whilst attempting to attribute a whole bunch...

First off, I apologize for the somewhat blurry pics. But I was wondering if you guys could help me out in regards to rarity and value of these two coins, as I am all googled out after attributing them. Couldn't find any records of recent sales or listed as for sale on either one.

RIC VI Thes 20b.




RIC VII Alexandria 63.

 

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Good job on correctly attributing them! You didn't even get tripped up on the Galerius. I would say $45-55 for the Galerius and $35-45 for the commemorative.

What else did you get?

 

Of what I've attributed so far?

Constantius II, RIC VIII 33
Tiberius II SB432
RIC VI 73b
Justin II SB372
Something I labeled Antioch, 75-76AD, RPC I 4292
Venetian Andrea Dandolo Grosso, 1342-1354. (holed! )
Polish coin from 1624, Cat# 1624PL03350
Japanese 1 BU from 1837-1868.

The other couple I'm working on include a large-ish silver Ptolemy, another large silver one, well worn, but looks like a Phoenician Tetradrachm, and, well, a whole bunch of small brass Romans, some Byzantines, etc.

I should add I was only able to find one place where the Galerius is listed online... it's not rare or anything? Granted, the one other example I found is amazing condition, so... And the spreadsheet I used to figure out what the Roman commemorative was had it's rarity listed as R1, I just went back and looked at it. Good stuff.

 

Nice additions!

 

I wouldn't call them additions, I'm attributing and selling them for my dad. 20% cut of everything...

 

Rarity does not equal value, remember that. Its only valuable if there are enough people are willing to pay good money for it.

RPC I is an Antioch civic issue trichalkon, issued in AD 59/60. Double check non that one.

 

http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=111505

That thing is what I've got... in nowhere near as good shape, haha.

 

Ah, very good. You just had a bit of a type on your dates.

 

Excellent. This attribution thing is a PITA though, haha.

 

A few more attributions...

Byzantine; Leo VI Follis; 866-912 AD; SB1729
Korea; Sangp'yong T'ongbo from the late Choson Dynasty
Japan; New Kan'ei; Iron
Japan; Old Kan'ei; 1667 and earlier
Japan; 4 Mon (11 Wave) 1769 and later
Japan; Ichibu; 1859-1868.
Japan; Shin Nanryo Nishu-gin; 1824-1830.

Yeah, I picked out the easy stuff.

 

The Kanei Tsuho aren't easy at all, if you do a complete job on them. Anything that has to be attributed by calligraphy style is hard. (But so rewarding!)

 

I was reading up on their attribution, but it was about 1:30 in the morning and I didn't really want to deal with that, haha... Might try attributing them tomorrow, if my day goes as planned.

 

Here's my two:


Japan
Ko-Kanei Tsuho type
Mito mint, Hitachi prefecture
1 mon, 1635 AD


Japan
Emperor Sakuramachi
Shin-Kanei Tsuho type
Ashio-Dozan mint, Shimotsuke prefecture
1 mon, 1741 AD (Kanpo 1)

 

Very nice, mine are in similar condition. None of the japanese ones I partially attributed have markings on the reverse, though. The Korean one has 4 obverse marks, and 3 reverse marks, slightly different than the one I found and used for attribution, which was 4 obv, 2 rev. In other words, I half-assed the Korean. Definitely gonna work on those tomorrow.

 

What reference are you guys using with your ancient Japanese? I have a lot of them, (no markings on reverse), that look to me like Edo but I am not sure.

 

I just googled something up that explains the basic differences and has pictures and whatnot... forget what site it was now.