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<p>[QUOTE="Clavdivs, post: 3361136, member: 93702"]I purchased a fun, inexpensive lot last year and was happy with what I was getting as far as the Romans (not the best quality for some but certainly a few treasures for me! and at a great price) .. the lot also included half a dozen small Greek coins that I knew very little about....I posted a pic of the whole lot as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]890878[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER] immediately picked out this coin as a bit of a star... sorry for the photo - really need to take a better one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]890881[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>AEOLIS, Grynion. Circa 3rd Century BC. Æ 16mm (3.42 gm). Three-quarter facing head of Apollo, turned slightly left, wearing laurel wreath , [ATTACH=full]890882[/ATTACH] mussel shell. BMC 1</b></p><p><br /></p><p>On VCoins they seem to sell for $115 to $150.. which is nice to know.. A LOT more than I paid for the bunch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes even a newbie gets things to go his way![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clavdivs, post: 3361136, member: 93702"]I purchased a fun, inexpensive lot last year and was happy with what I was getting as far as the Romans (not the best quality for some but certainly a few treasures for me! and at a great price) .. the lot also included half a dozen small Greek coins that I knew very little about....I posted a pic of the whole lot as follows: [ATTACH=full]890878[/ATTACH] [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER] immediately picked out this coin as a bit of a star... sorry for the photo - really need to take a better one: [ATTACH=full]890881[/ATTACH] [B]AEOLIS, Grynion. Circa 3rd Century BC. Æ 16mm (3.42 gm). Three-quarter facing head of Apollo, turned slightly left, wearing laurel wreath , [ATTACH=full]890882[/ATTACH] mussel shell. BMC 1[/B] On VCoins they seem to sell for $115 to $150.. which is nice to know.. A LOT more than I paid for the bunch. Sometimes even a newbie gets things to go his way![/QUOTE]
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