Ancient => Sometimes referred to as the first bronze coin (man, I had to snag it!!)

I feel guilty (Forgive me Mrs. X6) mentioning it but the #1 cast bronze options are the Italian/Roman Aes Grave. If you are altogether more made of money than anything else, there are the large rectangular bricks with really neat designs (see the British Museum site). Dropping into the 'just a few thousands' are the full pound liberal aes of Rome with Janus heads and a ship prow just like the little struck ones from the later Republic but huge. Next down are fractions including the prow series in smaller sizes. There are also fractions that have other designs. My only example is a puny 38g sextans (1/6 as) with a turtle from the mid 3rd century. It is one of the later cast Roman coins. At the last Baltimore show a dealer had a georgous full liberal as with great green patina and all the detail you could want for only $9k.

 

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Nice ... thanks for posting, A-Dawg (you're top-notch!!)

Yah, ya think? => get on board, old man => the cast AE train is leavin' the fricken station!!


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Hey, you know that I love you guys, right?

Cheers, comrades (you too, JA)

 

ahaha => thanks Doug, but I am definitely a 100's rather than a 1000's type of collector .... I actually like coins that look like they've been tossed around a bit, ya know?

I absolutely "love" your puny "38 gram turtle"!! => man, that would be my favourite coin!!! (very cool)

Oh, and hey, thanks for responding => I really do appreciate your words ... cheers!!

 

This does seem to be a reoccurring problem with me too...

 

Interesting coins, Steve... makes me want to collect ancient coins! By the way why do you type everything in blue?

 

ahahaha ... ooops, ya caught me!!

Sadly, I have a very poor memory, so it makes it 10x easier to locate my posts ............... I appreciate everybody's tolerance


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Perhaps now we see why some of us post on venues like Coin Talk. We know that the more people that get interested in our hobby, the better it will be for all of us. Sure it might drive up some prices but it will encourage dealers to handle coins like we want and not just bullion on proof sets. It will encourage more of you to support local schools offering Latin and Hollywood not to be afraid to make a movie we'd like to see about Septimius Severus or Probus (please, not another Commodus, though!). It will encourage more of you to write your congressman and suggest he not vote to make owing old things illegal when the museum crowd gets feisty. It will give us someone to talk to either here online or in local coin clubs. Some of us might just like to help people in payment for favors received from past mentors but the fact remains that each of us stands to benefit by more and more of you joining our obsession with ancient coins. Please, though, just keep away from the auction lot I'm bidding on in the next few weeks. I want that one and would rather none of you see it. :yes:

 

Geeesh dougsmit, I like you => you're crazy ... but in a good way!!

 

dougsmit => I am very jealous/interested in your coin, but I am having a hard time finding any info on a "Triens"??!!

... ummm, do you (or anybody) happen to have a link to any info regarding these ultra-cool coins? (thanks in advance)


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Ummm, sorry => I mean I'm having a hard time finding any info on Triens, that are cast AE ... you know, like your cool 3-sided coin!! (very cool)

 

I will eventually want to collect ancients coins. money permitting of course. do you guys save up for the better grades ? I look forward to seeing which coin you bought from that current auction.

 

We here on CT represent a pretty full range of types. We have those with high standards who buy only the finest specimens and those who prefer to own as many coins as their dollar will buy no mater what they look like. We have some who value rarity and are happy to own coins that others do not and others that prefer a sampling of the most popular big name coins even though demand from so many people makes them cost more than the rarities. In my case, about half the coins I buy strike others here as not something they would want. There are millions of types and millions of examples of the most common types. There are hundreds of types known only by a handful of examples. There are great and interesting coins from places you would love to visit and others from places that modern man has no idea where the place was. That is what we like about ancients: you can collect 'your way'.

 

Well said Doug. Well said.