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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 1847375, member: 57495"]In my thread title I'm borrowing a line from Doug in another thread. At the risk of coming across like a Doug Smith groupie, I think he couldn't have put it better when he said, "You have to know you will not get them all so you can only lean back and enjoy the ones that come your way."</p><p> </p><p>Here's one that I actually would have never bought myself - not particularly rare or valuable, poorly cleaned (not by me), ugly scratches on the obverse, and pretty crude-looking to boot. Yet when I found it in a batch of uncleaned ancients I received as a birthday present when I first started collecting, I ended up having hours of fun with it. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]308137[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>NERO</b></p><p>AE18 </p><p>JUDAEA, Ascalon. </p><p>Struck 66/67 AD, RPC I 4889.</p><p>O: Laureate head right, CE and altar before.</p><p>R: War deity Phanebal standing facing, holding harpa and round shield with palm frond, AC to left, OP (Year 170) to right. </p><p><br /></p><p>I enjoyed trying to nail the attribution, and enjoyed even more researching the coins of Ascalon and how to read their dating, reading up on the history of the city, the period during which the coin was struck (Ascalon sided with the Romans during the First Jewish-Roman War), and the god depicted on the reverse (Phanebal was specific to Ascalon, possibly a composite of Tanit and Baal, and apparently quite a nasty piece of work). </p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, despite the enjoyment I got out of this coin, I quickly discovered uncleaned coins mostly don't work for me. I'm not zen enough for it. Ardously cleaning what will largely be a bunch of crusty old culls just seems like a surefire way for me to end up a crusty old cull myself. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyone else have a particular coin that just came their way, or that they had rediscovered in their collection that they had a memorable moment leaning back and enjoying?</p><p><br /></p><p>Z.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 1847375, member: 57495"]In my thread title I'm borrowing a line from Doug in another thread. At the risk of coming across like a Doug Smith groupie, I think he couldn't have put it better when he said, "You have to know you will not get them all so you can only lean back and enjoy the ones that come your way." Here's one that I actually would have never bought myself - not particularly rare or valuable, poorly cleaned (not by me), ugly scratches on the obverse, and pretty crude-looking to boot. Yet when I found it in a batch of uncleaned ancients I received as a birthday present when I first started collecting, I ended up having hours of fun with it. [ATTACH=full]308137[/ATTACH] [B]NERO[/B] AE18 JUDAEA, Ascalon. Struck 66/67 AD, RPC I 4889. O: Laureate head right, CE and altar before. R: War deity Phanebal standing facing, holding harpa and round shield with palm frond, AC to left, OP (Year 170) to right. I enjoyed trying to nail the attribution, and enjoyed even more researching the coins of Ascalon and how to read their dating, reading up on the history of the city, the period during which the coin was struck (Ascalon sided with the Romans during the First Jewish-Roman War), and the god depicted on the reverse (Phanebal was specific to Ascalon, possibly a composite of Tanit and Baal, and apparently quite a nasty piece of work). Sadly, despite the enjoyment I got out of this coin, I quickly discovered uncleaned coins mostly don't work for me. I'm not zen enough for it. Ardously cleaning what will largely be a bunch of crusty old culls just seems like a surefire way for me to end up a crusty old cull myself. Anyone else have a particular coin that just came their way, or that they had rediscovered in their collection that they had a memorable moment leaning back and enjoying? Z.[/QUOTE]
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