How come all the ancient roman gold I see for sale on every site appears to be in at least VF condition or better? Why don't I ever see any Fair/Poor examples? Just a thought.... stainless
read my mind. maybe they just sell mostly as bullion(i mean its the dominating factor of the price), so since gold has been declining maybe they just dont wana sell them right now, and I'm sure many were melted down in the past.
I have seen some seriously mushy looking gold Roman coins for sale. I think the soft nature of gold is that if they suffered enough pressure and damage (which is easy to do) then it comes out unrecognizable and not worth selling and no one would want a flat chunk of gold with the premium price of it being ancient.
G'Day Stainless I have a coin photo in "Caught my eye" that you may want to look at,It's nothing special but It's been through the wars it has dents,scratches,graffiti and either a museum or a collector has inked on the reverse edge and they call it a dated practise,take a look mate you'll see a coin that's been around for a very long while regards Harry
I have seen it...and although i some damage to it...it is still a very nice coin and you can surely tell what it is....I'm talking about the bronzes we find in uncleaned lots stainless
I think the reason why people dont show that stuff is usually they have better examples or like me the 200 to 300 coins that I experimented on when I first started to clean coins are not worth a photo as I over cleaned quite a few before I got the nack on how to clean and leave the patina regards Harry oh and P.S. mate I left a blond joke on the other site
I believe the answer you're looking for lies in the circulation patterns of the gold coins The common coins of the land, and most circulated, were the bronze and silver issues. You just didn't pass an aureus across the counter the same way you would a few quadrantes. Most of the gold was either held as private wealth or flowed east, towards India. In fact, a CNG online auction in March of this year had a large number of heavily circulated aurei found in a hoard in India.
