"100+/- Greatest Ancient Coins" of Cointalk

Rather than showing five coins of Septimius Severus and being deafened by the yawning of most of you and rather than showing my favorite coin (the SS) again, I'll show five coins representing five different specialty collections that I have and continue to enjoy even though some of them don't get added to very often since I have retired to fixed income.

The collections are:

Eastern denarii of Septimius Severus:
Alexandria mint Venus reverse


Septimius Severus Legionary denarii:
LEG XXII PRI (the rarest Rome mint one - best of my four worst in existence but someone has to love them)


Technical oddities:
Magnentius flip over double strike with first strike being a brockage


Tiny Treasures (Greek silver - obol or under):
Syracuse 5th century BC 0.05g AR hexas (worst known?)


Fourrees:
Arados, Phoenicia tetradrachm year OE 185 BC - I know this even though mine has lost the reverse exergue because there was a higher grade one out there being offered as solid by dealers that should know better from these same dies. Mine was heavier and theirs had a very tiny spot of core showing.


Since we are limiting to 5 coins I can't show a few other interests like countermarked coins, Falling Horsemen, Coins of the East, Provincials with centration pits, eros m/m'ed and probably some specialties I have forgotten.

 

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Meanwhile over on Sicily:

 

And another, my only silver from Syracuse:

 

Doug, nicely done ... huh, just merely dustin' off the ol' B-side records, eh?

Man, you seem to have an endless supply to draw from ... it was difficult enough for me to narrow it down to a mere 5 coins (I only have 197 ancient coins in my collection), so I can't imagine how difficult it must have been for you to sift through the masses?!!

... nice random grouping of 5 coins!!

=> wow, everybody is bringin' beautiful coins to the party (great showing, my CoinTalk homies!!)

 

Ooop sorry => great coins as well, scottishmoney!! (those two examples are pee my pants beautiful!! ... man, I love the Syracuse cast flan!!)

 

This time not a particularly pretty coin, but one from one of the 10 oldest cities in the world and one I have visited the archaeological digs in a couple of times now:



This is a Roman era coin from the reign of Antoninus Pius from the city of Tyra - a small city on the estuary of the Dnestr river in what is now Ukraine.

It was one it took several years to find an example from.

 

I think we'll have to just make this Part 1.

 

Wow! Nice coins everyone. Here are three of my favorites:



1. Servilia I Denarius:

2. Galerius Follis: []

3. Constantius Gallus Follis:

 

Super lookin' coins, Bannon!!

 

=> pretty sharp lookin' coins, Ripper!! (ya gotta love the goat!!) ... well, not literally!!

 

I think for some it is meant literally.

 

well, since everyone else did 5 or 6, here is a couple more i just like...

leo vi





queen lilavati

 

chrsmat71 => nuthin' but winners!!

 

Then let me post one more. I haven't posted it in a while, but I love this coin and it's the oldest in my collection:

ATTICA, AEGINA

 

this young man always sum it up best...

 

Man, the turtle-kid rocks!!

 

Huh? => well friend, now you've opened-up the flood-gates!! (I'm also gonna post a couple o' winners that got trimmed-off my original five entry-coins) ... and then I'm gonna blame you if and when randygeki turns on me!!

Here is my B-side set:

Nero (AE As)


Maximinus II (AE25 Follis)


Phillip II (AE As)


Hadrian (AE20 ... Obol)


Trajan (AR Tetradrachm)


Herakles & Lion (AE24)


Chimera & Dove (AR Stater)



=> Bing, look what you made me do!!!!!



(sorry randygeki ... please forgive me ... I am bored)

 

A couple?

 

=> Judger!!